Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Titolo
Date
- 1920s-1930s (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
Metal canisters
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
Original housing for Harry Burton's negatives.
Modalità di acquisizione
Presented by Miss Phyllis Walker in 1945.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
- Several tin plate canisters for 8- by 10-inch glass-plate negatives.
- Measurements (a) 25.6 x 19.6 x 11.3 cm; (b) 25.8 x 19.6 x 9.1 cm [TAA ii.25.1-2].
- Bear labels including: 'Sensitive to Light! To be opened only in the presence of the receiver'
- Originally contained the negatives created by Harry Burton during the Tutankhamun excavation. The canisters no longer contain the negatives.
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
Strumenti di ricerca
Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Archived photographs for some of the canisters.