Área de identidad
Código de referencia
TAA iii.5
Título
Modern contact prints: made from Burton small negatives
Fecha(s)
- early 1980s (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Serie
Volumen y soporte
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
(1879-1940)
Historia 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.
Historia archivística
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
- Set of modern photographic prints made from Harry Burton's original set of small glass negatives (TAA.i.5A), made after the original negatives were conserved.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.