Zona de identificação
Código de referência
TAA iii.4
Título
Data(s)
- late 1970s to early 1980s (Produção)
Nível de descrição
Séries
Dimensão e suporte
2 filing cabinet drawers
Zona do contexto
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
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.
História do arquivo
Conservation set of film negatives, made from the original Burton negatives by the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio.
Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência
Zona do conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
- Copies of Harry Burton's negatives for the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
- This later set of film negatives was made from the original Burton large plate glass negatives (TAA.i.5) and small glass negatives (TAA.i.5A) after the negatives were conserved between 1980 and 1982.
Avaliação, selecção e eliminação
Ingressos adicionais
Sistema de organização
Zona de condições de acesso e utilização
Condições de acesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiçoes de reprodução
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Idioma do material
Script do material
Notas ao idioma e script
Características físicas e requisitos técnicos
Instrumentos de descrição
Zona de documentação associada
Existência e localização de originais
- Burton large glass plate negatives, see TAA.i.5.
- Burton small glass plate negatives, see TAA.i.5A.