Browse Items (337 total)

Black and white photograph.

Photo: 14.3 x 10.3 cm
Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.8 cm

This portrait shows the young Percy Grainger dressed in a suit, vest and tie and looking to his right. The photograph has been mounted onto thick cardboard with…

Black and white photograph.

13.5 x 8.6 cm

This portrait depicts the young Percy Grainger. The back of the print appears to be similar to that of a postcard. There is an inscription in the middle that reads: Breitkopt & Härtel, 44 Great…

Sepia toned black and white photograph.

Photo: 14.7 x 10.2 cm
Photo and board: 16.4 x 10.5 cm

This portrait of Percy Grainger when he was 23 years old shows his profile. It contains the inscription: From fond "guttis" to his grandmother…

Sepia toned black and white photograph.

Photo: 23.2 x 16.2 cm
Photo and board: 33.3 x 25.1 cm

This is a portrait of Percy Grainger when he was 37 years old. A bar with music notes is printed on the proper right side of the photograph. An…

Silver gelatin print.

24.7 x 19.6 cm

Frederick Morse was a photographer who lived next door to the Grainger household at 9 Cromwell Place, White Plains, in New York. His wife Tonie Morse became Grainger’s manager in 1925. Grainger initially…

Silver gelatin print.

24.9 x 18.5 cm

Frederick Morse was a photographer who lived next door to the Grainger household at 9 Cromwell Place, White Plains, in New York. His wife Tonie Morse became Grainger’s manager in 1925. Grainger initially…

Silver gelatin print.

Photo: 20.2 x 15.6 cm
Photo and board: 37.5 x 29.8 cm

This portrait depicts Percy Grainger with his fingers interlaced in front of him. The photograph is mounted on board.

Toned silver gelatin print.

Photo: 24.1 x 19.0 cm
Photo and frame: 30.3 x 24.3 cm

Grainger spent a lot of his life away from home touring as a concert pianist. While his mother was alive he developed a pattern of having photographs of himself…

Sepia toned black and white photograph.

Photo: 23.9 x 18.9 cm
Photo and board: 33.7 x 25.4 cm

This portrait of Percy Grainger depicts him facing the camera. The photograph appears to be printed directly on a mount board.

Platinum prints.

Photo: 14.0 x 9.5 cm
Photo and board: 28.0 x 20.7 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…