Área de identidad
Código de referencia
TAA ii.16.17
Título
Fecha(s)
- 2004 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Unidad documental simple
Volumen y soporte
1 digital image
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
British archaeologist and photographer. Born, Stamford 1879. Died, Asyut 1940. Began his photographic career in Florence with the art historian R. 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.
Historia archivística
The acquisition of the negative was not recorded. Acquired at the same time as TAA ii.16.15 and TAA ii.16.16.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
- Digital image.
- Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
- Postcard caption: 013 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES GOLD PORTRAIT MASK OF KING
- Original postcard features an edited version of Burton photograph P0757.
- Mask of Tutankhamun (256a), gold inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60672.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
The original negative was deaccessioned.
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Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Existencia y localización de originales
Not known.
Existencia y localización de copias
The Griffith Institute only has a low-resolution jpeg (600dpi) digital scan for this image, and it is not possible to rescan the original, now deaccessioned, negative.