• Title
  Ada Crossley, Australian contralto - portrait, 1903 / Talma, 374 George Street, Sydney and at Melbourne
• Creator
  Talma & Co.
• Call number
  P1/414
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1903
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447288
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 Paris panel - image 19.3 x 13.3 cm. , on mount 25.2 x 17.6 cm.
  
• 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)
  For a biography of Ada Crossley, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.8, 1891-1939. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1981 (p.159)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• Published Information
  Photograph reproduced in: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.136)
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Crossley, Ada (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4214014
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamps
  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
• Subject
  Crossley, Ada, 1874-1929
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  evening clothes
  hairstyles
  portraits
  singers
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1657305

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