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Signatur
Titel
Datum/Laufzeit
- c. 1940-1970 (Anlage)
- c. 1922-1939 (Anlage)
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Biographische Angaben
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.
Bestandsgeschichte
Some were formerly in the possession of Howard Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker.
Abgebende Stelle
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.
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Eingrenzung und Inhalt
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.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.