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- 1962 (Creación)
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Volumen y soporte
1 confectionery card
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Historia biográfica
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.
Historia archivística
Purchased in an online auction by Elizabeth Fleming.
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Presented by Elizabeth Fleming in July 2021.
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Alcance y contenido
- Confectionery card issued by Barratt & Co. Ltd, London from the set titled 'Wonders of the World: A Series of 50' (1962).
- No. 33: ‘Statue of Tutankhamen’.
- Painted version based on a Harry Burton photograph, probably Burton p0320 or p0321.
- Upper part of one of the so-called 'sentinel' or 'guardian' statues of Tutankhamun (Carter 22), in situ in the antechamber of the king's tomb, Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
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Copyright originally Barratt & Co. Ltd., now Tangerine Confectionery.
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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.