Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Titolo
Date
- c. late 1920s-late 1950s (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
2 boxes and 10 slide boxes
Area del contesto
Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
British artist and musician. Born, London 1896. Died, Toronto 1959. Educated in Canada, and then from 1922 studied music at the Royal College of Music. While at Oxford she began making archaeological drawings under the direction of Sir Leonard Woolley. This led onto her working for Sir Alan Gardiner and the Egypt Exploration Society; she copied and subsequently published parts of the temple of Sethos I at Abydos.
Storia archivistica
(a) Leica Kodachrom transparencies of reliefs from the interior of the Temple of Ramesses II at Abydos, in the possession of Miss Calverley.
(b) 10 photographs of the ceiling of the Cenotaph of Sethos I at Abydos, in the possession of Miss Calverley.
(c) 383 photographs made from Miss Calverley’s negatives for Sir Alan Gardiner.
(d) Correspondence, in the possession of Miss Calverley’s niece, Mrs S. Rampen.
Modalità di acquisizione
(a) Given by Miss Calverley in 1950.
(b) Given by Miss Calverley in 1956.
(c) Presented by Sir Alan Gardiner.
(d) Presented by Mrs S. Rampen in 1986.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
Over one thousand colour slides (group III), several hundred black and white photographs (group II), and correspondence (group I).
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
- The slides have been arranged in order of B. Porter and R. L. B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, vi (1939).
- Photographs are kept as received.
- Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.
Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions
Condizioni di riproduzione
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Lingua dei materiali
inglese
Scrittura dei materiali
Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura
Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici
No problems.
Strumenti di ricerca
Handwritten catalogue for slides.
Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
The slides are originals. The photographs were made from Miss Calverley's negatives which at that time were kept at Chicago House.
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Not known.
Unità di descrizione collegate
Other Archives:
- Slides formerly deposited with the School of Archaeology and Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool, then in the possession of Mrs S. Rampen in 1986.
Griffith Institute Archive:
- Gardiner MSS 36.18-24, seven boxes of transparencies - hieroglyphs from Temples of Sethos I and Ramesses II at Abydos, probably from Miss Calverley.
- Gardiner MSS 43, Abydos Enterprise.