Cartonnage: E.GA.290.1949

View image details

IIIF Manifest Slow looking Use this image

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Current Location: In storage

Entities

Cartonnage

Description

Partly gilded cartonnage mask featuring a striped close-fitting shoulder-length wig, carbon black painted eyebrows, black eye outlines and pupils. Underneath the gilding is a thick white calcite preparation layer. The yellow stripes on the wig are orpiment. It may have been intended that blue stripes would alternate with the orpiment yellow.

Measurements and weight

Height: 16 cm
Thickness: 3.1 cm
Width: 15 cm

Find spot

Egypt

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1949) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)

Identification numbers

Accession number: E.GA.290.1949
Primary reference Number: 61988
Oldadmincategory: M
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 11 March 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Antiquities

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Cartonnage" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/61988 Accessed: 2024-04-18 19:14:43

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/61988
            |title=Cartonnage
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-18 19:14:43|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-61988

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant48/E_GA_290_1949_1_201411_jas244_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Cartonnage"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Cartonnage</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>