Zone d'identification
Cote
TAA ii.16.17
Titre
Date(s)
- 2004 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
1 digital image
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
The acquisition of the negative was not recorded. Acquired at the same time as TAA ii.16.15 and TAA ii.16.16.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
- 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.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
The original negative was deaccessioned.
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Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Not known.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
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.