Parent Record(s)

LevelItem

ReferencePH/5/150

Artist / Photographer

unidentified

Title

Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears with friends and hostesses at a Geisha evening in Kyoto, Japan

Date12-13 Feb 1956

DescriptionPhotograph of, from left to right, an unidentified English woman, a Geisha hostess, Britten, two Geishas, Pears and two Japanese guests; Prince Ludwig of Hesse is seated in the foreground facing away from camera.
Photographer: unidentified

Extent1 photograph

Physical Descriptionblack and white; 16.5 x 12 cm

InscriptionA Geisha evening in Kyoto

InscriberPears, Peter

CopyrightOrphan work (photographer unidentified)

Copies2

Related MaterialPeter Pears: Travel Diaries ed. P.Reed, Boydell Press, 1995, p.54

Publication NoteAldeburgh Festival Programme Book 1956, between pages 24 and 25, cropped so that BB is first left;
Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life, compiled by Mitchell and Evans, Faber, 1978, image no. 293.

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