The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
(Carter 116)
Howard Carter (second from right, striding, wearing a hat with a black band) accompanying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun (the so-called "mannequin"; Carter 116), which is carried by an Egyptian member of the team transporting the object to the "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation.
Also present in the photograph is Lord Carnarvon (sitting on the wall at the far left), who watches as the group passes by. The man walking to the left of the Earl is Arthur Weigall (dark hat with a darker headband), a former Egyptian Antiquities Service Inspector now engaged as a journalist reporting on the excavation. The other Europeans present here are also journalists or tourists.
The portrait bust of Tutankhamun [Carter 116] was found in the tomb's Antechamber. The King is portrayed wearing a yellow flat-topped crown featuring the centrally positioned uraeus on the crown's temple band. The King also wears a close-fitting white garment.
The bust's purpose is unclear, but it probably displayed part of the King's regalia. A recent proposal is that it may have been originally used for supporting and storing the King's gold corset (Carter 54k) in the tomb. When thieves ransacked the tomb in antiquity, these robbers likely removed the corset from the bust before breaking the heavy regalia into smaller, portable pieces.
Correspondence from Johann Peter Adolf Erman (1854-1937) including relating to unpublished copy of insciptions from Siut and the Berlin Worterbuch, Newberry's publication of Rekhmara, and discussion of two hieroglyphic groups [in German].
Note: MSS 14/26 is also numbered 29 MSS 14/27 is also numbered A.30 MSS 14/28 is also numbered A.31
Print of "Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square. &c." in London (England), by J. Shury, published by J. Harwood, with addition of statue of Britannia and other statues in watercolour:
print with watercolour (grey and brown) on paper
mounted
18.9 x 15.7 cm
[on print] 'J. Shury. sculp' (printed note)
[on print] '12, Gt Carter Lane, Doctors Commons.' (printed note)
[on sketch] 'you must shew this as a point in distance' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Languard Fort / 3 miles' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'grass fields' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'osses' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'grass slope' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'old houses' (ink note)
[on sketch] '...hi]gher / ...]an down' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Martello towers / sunk in ditch level / with ground. / This is a much larger tower / than the common Martellos / would hold 3000 men' (ink note)
[on sketch] '1 White Church' (ink note)
[on sketch] '2 white Lighthouse' (ink note)
[on sketch] '3 pretty library / 4 cement works / 5 Distant land / 6 flag staff / 7 panorama when I (underlined) was there / Camera (?)' (ink note)
[on sketch] '8 promenade see the posts at the end / and a crane' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Harwich 10 years ago / monumental objects are all coeval slate | stone' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'another stone / White l[ight]house lower down on the / shore - or on a promenade / tis octagon I think' (ink note)
Correspondence from Reginald Engelbach (1888-1946) including relating to expenditure on the clearance of the tomb number 15 of Tetaki at Thebes and his work at Cairo Museum.
Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.
Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.
Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.
Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.
Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.
Part of a set of six photographs all taken by James Deardon Holmes (1873-1937), showing the backfilled entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1925. Each of these photographs represents one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image.
Handwritten notes recording contacts at various institutions whom the former owners of the album may have consulted in relation to the album's contents.
14 x 9 cm
[annotation]: 'See Mr Gibb Smith / V&A. / Capt. Hollis Smith / of Parker Galleries / suggested I bring the / book & you'd introduce / me to the right person / John Halton(?) in Library, / or Print Room -'
