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Silver gelatine prints.

Photo 1: 12.1 x 8.7 cm
Photo 2: 12.7 x 28.9 cm
Photo and wallet (closed): 14 x 11 cm
Photo and wallet (opened): 22.8 cm

P.G. initials are embossed in gold on the front of the wallet. 'Cross' is also embossed along the…

2 silver gelatin prints enclosed in a photo wallet. "P.G. initials are embossed in gold on the front of the wallet. 'Cross' is also embossed along the internal fold line of the wallet, perhaps indicating the manufacturer or photographer. Photo 1 on…

This photograph shows elements of the photographic setup Percy Grainger created in his home at White Plains, to capture his flagellation practices on film.

Percy Grainger commissioned a number of the display cases to be made for the variety of objects in his museum. These were designed by A. Pengelley & Co., Melbourne, and made locally.

silver gelatin print, 23.3 x 15.4 cm

This elegant studio double portrait of Percy and Rose is unorthodox in the way the composition crops out the object of their avid attention, however it successfully documents the legendary closeness between…

A plait of tawny blonde hair, belonging to Rose Grainger, with a cotton tie at the top. Stored in a small brown cardboard Ilford Box. Inscriptions on box by Percy Grainger read:
"Beloved mother's hair"
"Mother's hair"
"small switch"
Size hair:…

Photograph of Free Music experiments with Grainger's Duo Art player piano, and types notes by Grainger describing the experiment

Wood, ivory, felt, metal.

Grainger wrote in 1929, ‘If I were forced to choose one instrument only for chamber music – I would choose the harmonium (reed-organ) without hesitation; for it seems to me the most sensitively and intimately expressive…

This burr walnut vanity unit accompanied Melba to various theatres for personal use in her dressing room. It was given to her coachman/driver, William Hayes, when she left for an extended stay abroad. Hayes was married to Melba’s maid, who would fill…

Ambrotype, paper binding

30.6 x 25.3 cm

This photograph is an ambrotype, a process only used widely for a short time between approximately 1855 and 1865, which places this image of unidentified boys quite early in the history of photography.…