Description: Fantastic Mounted Color Plate The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes Egypt New York: 1917 Caption: Music and Dancing: West Wall, South Side Copy by Lancelot Crane. Being a single color illustration, the frontispiece illustration for, and extracted from a defective copy of: Norman De Garis Davies. The Tomb of Nakht at Thebes. With Plates in Color by L. Crane, Norman De G. Davies, and F. S. Unwin of the Egyptian Expedition and Nina De Garis Davies. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917. This book was published in an edition of only 500 copies printed on Van Gelder Handmade Paper in the Month of April 1917, by the Gilliss Press. It was a publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, and was edited by Albert M. Lythgoe, Curator of the Department of Egyptian Art: The Robb De Peyster Tytus Memorial Series. Sheet measures approximately 19.5 x 14.5 inches. Possibly a few minor spots, but for the most part a clean, bright example of this frontispiece print in very good condition. Quoting Wikipedia: "Nakht was an Ancient Ebyptian official who held the position of a scribe and astronomer of Amun, probably during the reign of Thutmose IV in the Eighteenth Dynasty. He is buried in the Theban Necropolis in tomb TT52. " Egyptian Art Egyptology Waset Ancient Egyptian City Luxor Karnak Necropolis Nubia Pharaohs Nile River Upper Egypt Alluvial Plains Nile Valley
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Width (Inches): 14.5
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Subject: Africa
Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Country/Region of Manufacture: Egypt
Height (Inches): 19.5
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Date of Creation: 1900-1949
Year of Production: 1917
Original/Licensed Reprint: Limited Edition Print
Color: Brown
Type: Print
