Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Titolo
Date
- 1984 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
53 albums containing approximately 2,500 photographic prints
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
Modalità di acquisizione
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
- Complete set of Burton photographs.
- For consultation by visiting researchers.
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
- Arranged thematically.
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.