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Cote
TAA iii.6
Titre
Modern contact prints: made from Burton large negatives
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Étendue matérielle et support
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Nom du producteur
(1879-1940)
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
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
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Portée et contenu
- Set of modern photographic prints made from Harry Burton's original set of large glass plate negatives (TAA.i.5), made before the original negatives were conserved.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
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Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.