Identity area
Reference code
TAA i.5
Title
Date(s)
- 1922-1933 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian Henry Hobart Cust. He was then engaged as a excavator at Thebes by Theodore Davis between 1910-14. Then from 1... »
Archival history
Part of Howard Carter's estate. Bequeathed to Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker in 1939.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The negatives were presented to the Griffith Institute by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1946. Miss Walker transferred the copyright for the negatives to the Griffith Institute.
The negatives were stored at the Mincing Lane Safe Deposit Co. Ltd, Mincing Lane, ... »
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Harry Burton's large glass plate negatives.
- Taken by Harry Burton during the excavation, clearance and recording of Tutankhamun's tomb
- Approximately 860 negatives
- Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
- The negative number ranges comprise both the small and ... »
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
- Most of the negatives are approximately 17.9 x 23.9 cm
Allied materials area
Existence and location of copies
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Publication note
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/gallery/ etc.
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tutgal1.html
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tutgal2.html
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4tutgal3.html
- The photographs are also featured alongside the Tutankhamun object cards, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/ etc.
Publication note
- Reproduced in numerous publications including:
- Carter, Howard 1923-1933. The tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen: discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter, 3 vols. Photographs by Harry Burton (OEB 136412).
- The Times (London), particularly 1922-1933
- The Illustrated London News, particularly 1922-1933
- Fox, Penelope 1951. Tutankhamun's treasure (OEB 2854)
- Desroches Noblecourt, Christiane 1963. Toutankhamon: vie et mort d'un pharaon (OEB 215695)
- Desroches-Noblecourt, Christiane 1963. Tutankhamen: life and death of a pharaoh (OEB 9997)
- Reeves, Nicholas 1990. The complete Tutankhamun: the king - the tomb - the royal treasure (OEB 32978)
- Griffith Institute 2022. Tutankhamun: excavating the archive (OEB 298597)
Publication note
- Comprehensive study of Harry Burton's photography for the Tutankhamun excavation, see Riggs, Christina 2019. Photographing Tutankhamun: archaeology, ancient Egypt, and the archive (OEB 263370).
Notes area
Note
- A set of film negatives was made in 1980, see TAA iii.4.
- The film negatives were intended to be used as a 'working set' to reduce the handling of the original Burton negatives.
- However, prints made from the film negatives were inferior to those made from the original negatives.
- New contact prints continued to be made from the original negatives until the late 1990s when demand changed from photographic prints to digital images.
Digital object metadata
Filename
Burton_0009_negative_image.jpg
Media type
Image
Mime-type
image/jpeg