Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
TAA iii.51.1
Titolo
Date
- 2022 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Unità documentaria
Consistenza e supporto
1 package
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
Presented by Peeters Publishers in 2022.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
Printed twelve-month calendar, each month featuring a different colourised Harry Burton photograph.
- Burton images supplied by the Griffith Institute.
- Two copies.
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.