Section and plan of the tomb of Ramesses III
Drawing
c. 1832 (made)
c. 1832 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Section of the tomb of Ramesses III with a plan of the tomb in the lower left register.
Object details
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| Title | Section and plan of the tomb of Ramesses III (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and watercolour on paper. |
| Brief description | Section and plan of the tomb of Ramesses III, drawn by Francis Vyvan Jago Arundale (1807-1853), pencil and watercolour on paper, c. 1832 |
| Physical description | Section of the tomb of Ramesses III with a plan of the tomb in the lower left register. |
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| Object history | The drawing was made by the architectural artist Francis Arundale while acting as draughtsman for Robert Hay, the younger son of Sottish nobility, who was in the process of documenting ancient Egyptian sites. Arundale joined Hay in Egypt and worked for him during the years 1824 to 1834. One of the drawings he produced in this time was the section and plan of the tomb of Ramesses III. Despite a vague later inscription, “Plan and interior of one of the Tombs of one of the Kings”, the subject of the drawing has been identified through its distinctive form and decoration. The drawing was sold to the V&A in 1877 by the dealer Robert Jackson. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Horsfall Turner, Olivia, ‘From Sepulchre to Saloon’, Images of Egypt, eds. Mari Lending, Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn and Tim Anstey (Oslo: Pax, 2018) p. 160. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 8258 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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