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LevelItem

ReferencePH/1/383

Artist / Photographer

Thomson, Rita

Title

Benjamin Britten on a narrowboat on the North Oxford Canal

DateMay 1975

DescriptionPhotograph of Britten, wearing jacket and woollen hat, seated in the bow of the barge, reading.
The narrowboat is the "Amelia di Liverpool", owned by the baritone John Shirley-Quirk.
Photographer: Rita Thomson

Extent1 photograph

Physical Descriptionblack and white; 17 x 12 cm

CopyrightRita Thomson

Copies1

Publication NoteReproduced in Benjamin Britten: Pictures from a Life, compiled by Mitchell and Evans, Faber, 1978, image no 405

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