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ReferencePH/5

Title

Photographs of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears with friends, colleagues and associates

Date1939-1976

DescriptionFormal portraits as well as informal photographs taken on many different occasions, at home, at work, on trips in the UK and abroad, and on holiday.

Extent2 boxes

Physical DescriptionMainly black and white; some colour

Related MaterialSee also two black and white photographs, each 12 x 8 cms, of Britten and Pears with the Prince and Princess of Hesse, and possibly David Geddes, seated round a restaurant table in Piraeus, 1962 or 1963, in an album of postcards with captions pencilled by Britten. [Britten postcard album]

See also one black and white photograph, 10 x 12 cms, of Britten and Pears with guests at a party in The Red House, on page 6 of an album of photographs taken by Prince Ludwig of Hesse in June 1958. [Hesse Album 1958]

See also two black and white photographs, each 10 x 7.5 cms, of Britten and Pears sitting with Princess Margaret of Hesse and Britten's sister, Barbara, at a small table in the kitchen of The Red House, on page 7 of the same album. [Hesse Album 1958]

See also one black and white photograph, 23.5 x 17 cms, of Britten and Pears with Marion Harewood in the front row of the audience at the 1961 Dubrovnik Festival production of The Rape of Lucretia, on page 19 of a brown leather album of photographs inscribed by Pears in red ballpoint: Dubrovnik 1959-60. This photograph is published on page 17of the 1962 Dubrovnik Festival programme book and has the conservation negative number NL3588-036-26A

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