A VIEW OF THE PTOLEMAIC TEMPLE AT ARMANT

Details

HOWARD CARTER (1874-1939)
A View of the Ptolemaic Temple at Armant
Gouache on paper
Signed 'Howard Carter 1903' (lower right)
Inscribed in a second hand (Lady Amherst?) in ink in the lower margin 'Temple of Erment-from a photo by C.J. Fountain Esq. 1861'
10¾ x 14 in. (27.3 x 35.6 cm.)
19½ x 22¾ in. (49.5 x 57.8 cm.) framed

Provenance

Lady Amherst of Hackney.
Dr. Nicholas Reeves, London, 1997.

Literature

Lady Amherst of Hackney, A Sketch of Egyptian History, London, 1904, pp. 216-217 (plate).

Lot Essay

Lady Amherst commissioned Howard Carter to paint this scene based on a photograph by her ancestor, C.J. Fountain, Esq. The Ptolemaic temple at Armant, ancient Iuny, was still in existence in 1861, the date that it was photographed by C.J. Fountain. By 1903, the date that Carter painted this scene, the temple was completely destroyed.

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