A The Egypt Centre Event
SpeakerJohn Wyatt, Independent scholar
Speaker's BiographyJohn Wyatt has worked for several years as one of the Research Volunteers cataloguing two of these collections, especially the wildlife paintings, and is therefore in a privileged position to tell us about those particular artistic skills of Howard Carter and how they were later honed to document his more famous discoveries.
From: 5 Apr 2017, 7 p.m.To: 5 Apr 2017, 8 p.m.
Location: Fulton House Room 2 Singleton Campus, Fulton House
Because of his later achievements, it is often forgotten that Howard Carter started his working life painting pets in the stately homes of East Anglia. One such contact led to him being recommended to Professor Francis Griffith of the British Museum to fill an Egypt Exploration Fund vacancy for a “tracer, copyist and colourist” in Egypt. Successful, the 18-year old Carter joined Percy Newberry at Beni Hasan in October 1891 and then moved on with him to Deir el-Bersheh that November. After a few months with Sir William Flinders Petrie at Amarna in early 1892, Carter returned with Newberry to Beni Hasan, as his main artist, to produce a series of coloured facsimiles, the originals of many of which are still to be found in the archives of the Griffith Institute, Egypt Exploration Society, British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum.
Contact: Wendy Goodridge (Email: w.r.goodridge@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 5960
Event created by: w.r.goodridge