Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
TAA i.7
Titolo
Date
- c. 1940-1970 (Creazione)
- c. 1922-1933 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Serie
Consistenza e supporto
1 cupboard
Area del contesto
Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
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 1914 onwards he worked for the rest of his career as a photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His task was to record many of the royal and private tombs at Thebes. Between 1922 and 1933 he was lent by the Metropolitan Museum to Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to make a photographic record during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Storia archivistica
Some were formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Modalità di acquisizione
Some were donated to the Griffith Institute by Miss Phyllis Walker in June 1959.
Other photographic prints made by the Ashmolean photographic studio on behalf of the Griffith Institute.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
Tutankhamun excavation - Harry Burton's original contact prints made from the original glass plate negatives
- Set of original photographic prints.
- Most were created by Harry Burton.
- Some prints were made in the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio between the mid-1940s and the 1970s.
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condizioni di riproduzione
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Lingua dei materiali
Scrittura dei materiali
Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura
Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici
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Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Archived scans in Griffith Institute.