December 1951
Photograph of Billy Budd (Theodor Uppman) manacled on the moonlit gundeck before being hanged in the morning. The scarf he wears suggests this picture may have been posed out of performance, since it was taken off him by the Master-at-Arms in the first scene of the opera.
Photographer: unidentified
1 photograph
Black and white; 12 x 16.5 cm
Orphan work (photographer unidentified)
Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PHPN-3-1-72