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LOT 0472
Egyptian Pharaoh Watercolour Attributed to Howard Carter
DATED 1917 A.D.
15 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (898 grams total, 38.5 x 31 cm).
Profile bust of an Egyptian male in nemes headcloth with uraeus to the brow, wesekh segmented collar; signed bottom right 'Howard Carter, 1905'; board to reverse with pencilled note 'Hatshepsu' and inked 'Watercolour painting signed H carter 1905 / remnants of an old Philips auction label on verso', with pencilled star motif. [No Reserve]
Provenance
with old Phillips label to the verso.
Literature
Cf. Davis, T.M., The Tomb of Hâtshopsîtû, London, 1906, plate facing p. 22, for Howard Carter's version of the same image produced for Theodore M. Davis' publication of Hatshepsut's tomb.
Footnotes
Hatshepsut was the longest-reigning female ruler in Egyptian history (1473-1458 B.C.), who undertook several military expeditions.
Howard Carter's father, Samuel, was an illustrator for the Illustrated London News in the later 1800s. In 1891, Howard Carter accompanied Percy Newberry on an expedition focussing on First Intermediate Period tombs at the Middle Egyptian site of Beni Hasan, from which many of his original pieces survive. During his time at El-Amarna, the excavator Flinders-Petrie took Carter to visit the newly discovered royal tomb of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Carter made some sketches there which were published in The Daily Graphic on March 23, 1892, accompanying Petrie’s article on the tomb. These sketches were the first Egyptian drawings published by Howard Carter, and the first to convey the uniqueness of Amarna art to the European public.
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LOT 0472
Egyptian Pharaoh Watercolour Attributed to Howard Carter
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
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