Zona de identificação
Código de referência
TAA i.5A
Título
Burton negatives - small glass plate
Data(s)
- 1940-2000 (Produção)
- 1922-1939 (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Séries
Dimensão e suporte
6 filing cabinet drawers
Zona do contexto
História do arquivo
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
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Âmbito e conteúdo
Harry Burton's small glass plate negatives
Howard Carter's negatives
Later film negatives, made from original Burton photographs
- Some are original Harry Burton negatives.
- Carter's negatives are views of the area around the tomb entrance and the outer sealed doorway when the tomb was found in 1922 and before Burton joined the Tutankhamun excavation team in December 1922.
- Glass and film negatives.
- Approximately 1000 negatives (400 glass and 600 film)
- Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
- The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (large, see TAA i.5)
- A few original negatives in this series were created by Howard Carter, see above.
- Many of the negatives were made later in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from photographs supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following an exchange of images in the 1950s.
- Includes modern film negatives made in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from the original Harry Burton photographic prints in the Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute.
Avaliação, selecção e eliminação
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Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiçoes de reprodução
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Idioma do material
Script do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Características físicas e requisitos técnicos
- Burton's negatives are approximately 11.9 x 16.3 cm
- Carter's negatives are approximately 10.7 x 8.2 cm
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Existência e localização de originais
Existência e localização de cópias
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unidades de descrição relacionadas
Nota de publicação
Nota de publicação
- Many reproduced in 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).
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/gallery/
- 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.
- Reproduced in numerous publications including:
- 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)
Nota de publicação
- 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).