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- 1951 (Produção)
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5 printers' blocks or plates
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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.
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All, except for plate 28, presented by Susanne Woodhouse in 2015 and 2024 (Ann el-Mokaden Librarian, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum, & Subject Librarian (Egyptology), Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library (formerly Sackler Library), University of Oxford), who acquired them around 1999 from Mr John Taylor, former Griffith Institute Librarian, when clearing his desk.
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- Set of 5 brass printing plates.
- Used for the production of Fox, Penelope 1951. Tutankhamun’s Treasure London: Oxford University Press [OEB 2854]
- plate 28
- plate 30
- plate 48 B [left]
- plate 48 C [upper & lower]
- plate 49 A [left]
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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Penelope Fox was the Assistant Secretary in the Griffith Institute, during the late 1940s to early 1950s.