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Nellie Melba alighting from her car with driver William Hayes, London, c.1900–10
Melba owned numerous cars throughout her life including models made by Rolls Royce, Pierce-Arrow, Renault, Fiat and Cadillac. When she travelled, her cars were sometimes shipped between continents including to Australia. In Paris in 1904, Melba was…
Postcard of mulitgraph photograph of Percy Grainger ‘In the Round’, 1933
This is a postcard featuring a 'multigraph' photograph of Percy Grainger. The Grainger Museum has many copies of this postcard, which was used by Percy Grainger as a promotional tool. It projects an explicitly modern image of the multifaceted…
Tristram Cary in his studio at Fressingfield, UK, early 1970s
Tristram Cary in his electronic studio at Fressingfield, UK, early 1970s
Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross working on a Free Music tone-tool experiment
This photograph was taken at the Grainger home at White Plains, USA. Other photographs in the Grainger Museum Collection depict Ella Grainger also working with Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross, on this same experiment. It is likely that Ella Grainger…
Portrait of Nellie Melba, inscribed to Mathilde Marchesi, signed Paris, 1890
While in London in 1886, Nellie Armstrong auditioned for several singing teachers but was turned down by all of them, including Sir Arthur Sullivan. Demonstrating her resolve, she travelled to Paris to sing for Europe’s leading vocal teacher,…
Nellie Melba as Juliette from Roméo et Juliette, 1897
Melba dated her success at Covent Garden from her 1889 performance in Roméo et Juliette opposite Jean de Reszke. It was the first time that English audiences had heard the opera sung in French. Juliette became one of the most frequently performed…
