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Reference code
GB 891 TG-TG/2-TG/2/6-TG/2/6/4
Publication status
Draft
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Item
Extent and medium
1 volume
Date(s)
- 1929 (Creation)
Context area
Name of creator
Winifred Mabel Brunton
(1880-1959)
Biographical history
Winifred Mabel Brunton (née Newberry) was a South African painter, illustrator and Egyptologist. She married Guy Brunton in 1906 and studied with him at University College London. She painted water colour illustrations of Egyptian works of art through his influence, using objects such as those found in Tutankhamun’s tomb. She made a series of illustrations for two popular books with chapters written by various authors, _Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt_, 1926, and _Great Ones of Ancient Egypt_, 1929.
Repository
Royal Asiatic Society Archives
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A copy of _Great Ones of Ancient Egypt_, historical studies by various Egyptologists with portraits by Winifred Brunton, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1929. Signed 'B. Myers' and 'Silver Bridus' on the front flyleaf, with further typed and handwritten notes on King Narmer on the front pastedown.
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