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Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 10.8 x 15.7 cm
Envelope: 11.5 x 16.1 cm
Note: 19.0 x 21 cm

Grainger died of cancer in 1961. This photograph was taken in the year before his death by his friend Burnett Cross, physicist and co-experimenter with…

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 24.1 x 18.4 cm
Photo and larger card: 45.8 x 35.4 cm

It appears Grainger liked this image very much, as the collection contains multiple copies signed by the photographer. Arnold Genthe was a celebrity photographer…

Silver gelatin prints and mechanically printed postcard.

13.5 x 8.3 cm

Aimé Dupont was a fashionable New York studio where Grainger sat for a number of portraits sometime before November 1915. He had already made his debut to New York audiences…

Platinum prints.

Photo: 14.1 x 9.7 cm
Photo and board: 28 x 20.6 cm
Envelope: 35.6 x 22.8 cm

These portraits were taken in the same sitting at Elliot and Fry studio in London, and demonstrate how a change in lighting and camera angle can…

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 20 x 14.5 cm
Photo and board: 22.8 x 16.4

This photograph is from a series of promotional photographs Grainger had made in London as his performing career progressed. The photograph was taken at Hana Studios, a…

Platinum print, hand-made paper, graphite.

Photo: 23.4 x 18.4 cm
Paper (studio name): 52.4 x 31.8 cm
Board: 64.1 x 51.1 cm

Adolph de Meyer photographed Grainger multiple times between 1903 and 1906—documenting the young musician’s maturation…

Platinum print, hand-made paper, graphite.

Photo: 28.6 x 21.7 cm
Parchment/Velum Paper?: 45.5 x 41.1 cm
Board: 64 x 51.1 cm

Baron Adolph Sigismund de Meyer is seen by many as the founder of fashion photography. Later in his career he was to…

Audience interest in the compositions of Australia’s celebrated composer-pianist Percy Grainger was immense, and his tours in Australia in 1934 and 1935 are typical. His 1934 tour included performances of In a Nutshell Suite, To a Nordic Princess,…