File:Major Benton Fletcher playing an Italian Virginals in Old Devonshire House in 1934.jpg

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Description	Major G H Benton Fletcher is shown playing an Italian virginals (probably by Vincentius Pratensis) of the late 16th or early 17th century in Old Devonshire House. The three women in the photograph may be members of the Tudor Singers who used a room in this house.
Source	Original publication: Caption of photograph suggests that this photograph was made by a journalist presumably for publication. Careful search has failed to identify this publication Immediate source: Topham Partners LLP, TopFoto.co.uk
Date	24 October 1934
Author	Not Known (Life time: Not Known)
Permission (Reusing this file)	Having been published probably in 1934 and certainly before 1944 it had a term of protection of 50 years from the making of the original negative under the Copyright Act of 1911

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Image title	Major G H Benton Fletcher ( artist author and traveller ) refused a public school education and became a licensed peddlar - the reason for this was that he wanted to study the conditions of doss houses at first hand - in his house in Holborn which was built by the first Duke of Devonshire - he has one of the finest collections of musical instruments in the world and he allows students to practise on them for a fee of sixpence an hour - his house is also the headquarters of the famous Tudor Singers and very often Major Penton Fletcher accompanies them during rehearsals on his historic instruments - photo shows Major G H Benton Fletcher playing the accompaniment for members of the Tudor Singers on one of his valuable instruments - a virginal of Queen Elizabeth period October 24th 1934
Author	Between the wars
Credit/Provider	©1999 Credit:Topham Picturepoint
Short title	38493
Width	1,268 px
Height	1,012 px
Pixel composition	Black and white (Black is 0)
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	4
Horizontal resolution	96 dpi
Vertical resolution	96 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
File change date and time	15:28, 5 February 2015
Exif version	2.21
Color space	Uncalibrated
Category	FEA
Unique ID of original document	0CF12B7661B4966FD19943ED3B848FFF
Date and time of digitizing	18:00, 1 December 2011
Date metadata was last modified	15:28, 5 February 2015
Copyright status	Copyright status not set
IIM version	2