Griffith Institute Archive

Description of material

This description is based on the General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G)

1. Identity statement

Reference code n/a

Title W. F. Brunton MSS.

Dates of creation of the material Probably in the 1910s.

Extent 1 watercolour.

2. Context

Name of creator Brunton, Winifred Mabel (1880-1959)

Administrative and biographical history
British artist. Born, 1880. Died, Clocolan, Orange Free State, South Africa, 1959. Married Guy Brunton in 1906. Produced water colour illustrations for her own publications, as well as for her husband's excavation reports.
See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995), 69.

Custodial history
Formerly in the possession of the mother of Mrs P. M. Wilson, who was a friend of the Bruntons.

Immediate source of acquisition
Presented by Mrs P. M. Wilson in 1988.

3. Content and structure

Scope and content Watercolour showing the initial stages of one of Howard Carter's excavations.

System of arrangement Kept as received.

4. Access and use

Legal status Property of the Griffith Institute.

Access conditions No restrictions.

Copyright conditions Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.

Language of material Not applicable.

Physical characteristics Good condition.

Finding aids None.

5. Allied materials area

Location of originals This is an original.

Existence of copies None.

Related units of description G. Brunton MSS. Drawings of seals made by W. M. Brunton.

Associated material Not known.

Publications Not published.

(December 13, 2003)