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Platinum print.

Photo: 20 x 14.9 cm
Paper: 35.6 x 26.3 cm
Board: 64.1 x 51.1 cm

Czechoslovakian-born Jan Kubelik (1880-1940) had an international reputation as a virtuosic violinist. Later in life he made Edison Phonograph recordings with…

Silver gelatin and silver chloride prints respectively.

Photo 1 (Sitting): 25.4 x 17.7 cm
Photo 2 (Standing): 25.2 x 17.7 cm
Photos and board: 48.1 x 63.3 cm

Grainger acquired high quality hand-enlarged photographs of nudes produced in…

Chromogenic print from Kodachrome slide.

Photo (EG): 13.3 x 18.3 cm
Photo (PG): 20.2 x 25.4 cm
Photos and board: 56.1 x 40.7 cm

From the series ‘what colour are composers’ eyes’. There are 2 photographs mounted on card. The top photographs…

Silver gelatine print.

Photo: 33.3 x 23.4 cm
Photo and board: 48.4 x 35.4 cm

In the late 1930s Harris & Ewing was the largest photographic studio in the United States, with five physical locations and approximately 120 employees. A very…

Printing-out paper print.

Photo: 9.2 x 5.7 cm
Photo and board: 10.2 x 6.2 cm

Portrait of Rose Grainger, mother of Percy Grainger, as a young women. This photograph depicts her side profile and she is wearing a dark collar high necked dress…

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…

Printing-out paper print.

15.6 x 11.2 cm

Portrait of Rose Grainger in New Zealand. She is facing the camera and is wearing a large round brim hat with feathers and a v neck dress. Rose Grainger is captured here wearing a quintessential…

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…

Printing-out paper print.

Photo: 14.4 x 9.9 cm
Photo and card: 16.6 x 10.6 cm

Grainger developed a close, lifelong friendship with the Danish-born cellist and composer, Herman Sandby. Joined by Sanby’s partner Alfhild de Luce as ‘extra…

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…