Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- late 1970s to early 1980s (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
2 filing cabinet drawers
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
Conservation set of film negatives, made from the original Burton negatives by the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
- 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.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
- Burton large glass plate negatives, see TAA.i.5.
- Burton small glass plate negatives, see TAA.i.5A.