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Lot 142

Howard Carter
(British, 1873-1939)
The Temple of Hatshepsut

3 December 2014, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £11,875 inc. premium

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Howard Carter (British, 1873-1939)

The Temple of Hatshepsut
signed and dated 'Howard Carter 1899' (lower right)
watercolour
42 x 31cm (16 9/16 x 12 3/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Fine Art Society, London

Hatshepsut, the 'foremost of noble ladies' was the fifth Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Widely regarded as one of the most successful Pharaohs, Hatshepsut reigned longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty. Egyptologist James Henry Breasted suggests that she was 'the first great woman in history of whom we are informed'.

The temple itself is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el-Bahari on the West Bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings.

Between 1894 and 1899 Carter worked at Thebes (Deir el-Bahari) recording the wall reliefs in the Temple of Hatshepsut. The present lot dates from this period.

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