Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Howard Carter's watercolours


I had a discussion on Facebook about Carter's watercolours and wondered if there was a collection of them. This post is the results of that discussion. Do you know of any more, or a published collection?

Carter started his working life in Egypt as an artist and only later became an archaeologist. His father was also an artist and Carter inherited his talent. Carter; having originally painted an image for the purposes of scientific recording, subsequently  sold images like this to tourists.

1) Griffiths

The Griffiths Institute in Oxford has a big collection of his bird pictures.This is an example of one of them but there are lots more on the website. Howard Carter's watercolours of bird and animals

http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/gif-files/Carter_vii_1_01b_2.jpg

2) Highclere Castle
They have a fabulous picture he painted of the temple of Hatshepsut, this is a poor quality scan of the back of their guide book.

3) The Egypt Exploration Society 
EES have a number published on this link  http://www.ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/Images%20in%20Word.pdf .

 

4) From the excavation manuals of E. Neville's exploration of the Deir al Ba'hri.Here is one example.






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