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Ella Grainger, seated at her writing desk in the living room at home in White Plains, contemplates the “Kangaroo Pouch” Free Music machine
Donated to the Grainger Museum by Burnett Cross on 19 April 1994
Portable harmonium (reed organ)
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…
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…
Letter from Ormond Professor Bernard Heinze to Percy Grainger, 25 September 1936, and accompanying photograph of the Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne.
In this letter, Heinze shares an image of the Grainger Museum at the completion of its first phase, with Percy Grainger. Grainger had participated in early design of the Museum, but was obliged to leave the project with the local team of architects,…
Bell-Field
Federation Handbells, on loan from Museums Victoria, in a display created by postgraduate students from the Melbourne School of Design, for the exhibition How it plays: Innovations in percussion, 2019. The postgraduate students describe their…
Portrait of Percy Grainger on a postcard
Sepia toned black and white photograph.
13.6 x 8.7 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been printed onto a German postcard.
13.6 x 8.7 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been printed onto a German postcard.
Portrait of a young Percy Grainger wearing a double breasted coat
Sepia toned black and white photograph.
Photo: 23 x 13.4 cm
Paper: 24 x 13.8 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been mounted on 2…
Photo: 23 x 13.4 cm
Paper: 24 x 13.8 cm
Portrait a young Percy Grainger wearing a cravat and a double breasted coat. He appears to be leaning against a piano. The photograph has been mounted on 2…
Percy Grainger
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…
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…
Percy Grainger
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…
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…
Eleonora Duse
Photogravure.
Photo: 19.8 x 10.9 cm
Photo and card: 34.8 x 26.8 cm
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) was a much-adored star of the Italian stage who also enjoyed international acclaim. She is remembered for her roles in plays by Henrik Ibsen and…
Photo: 19.8 x 10.9 cm
Photo and card: 34.8 x 26.8 cm
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) was a much-adored star of the Italian stage who also enjoyed international acclaim. She is remembered for her roles in plays by Henrik Ibsen and…
