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'Great Ones of Ancient Egypt'

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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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