Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / Talma, 374 George Street, Sydney and at Melbou...
Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / Talma, 374 George Street, Sydney and at Melbou...
Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / Talma, 374 George Street, Sydney and at Melbourne
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
1903
Call Numbers
P1/414
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
Photographs - image 19.3 x 13.3 cm. , on mount 25.2 x 17.6 cm. - 1 Paris panel
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : created before 1955
Issue Copy
Digitised
Subjects
More information
Alternative Titles
Full title
Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / Talma, 374 George Street, Sydney and at Melbourne
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Contributing Creator
Photographer's stamps
Notes
General note
Transferred from P1/Crossley, Ada (BM), January 2010
Digital order no:a4214014
Signature / Inscriptions
To / My dear old friend / G. Marr Thompson / Gratefully & affectionately / Ada. -- signature on upper and lower edges of mount
Date note
Dated from another reproduction of this portrait in the Small Pictures File (BM) where Crossley's autograph contains the date
Published information
Photograph reproduced in: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.136)
Contextual Information
Source
Presented 1938
Administrative / Biographical history
"[Ada Crossley's] fame in oratorio in Great Britain was comparable with Melba's in opera. She had often sung for Queen Victoria." Percy Grainger toured Australia with Crossley in 1903-1904 and 1908-1909. -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (pp.123 & 137)
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Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
P1/414
Record Identifier
YRlZvV3n
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZvV3n
Other Identifiers
Reference code
447288
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