| RefNo | PT/73/11/14 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paintings, Egyptian sarcophagus and mummy by Henry Perry |
| Date | March 1822 |
| Description | Plate 18, figures 1-3 showing a sarcophagus and the mummy it contained, still wrapped in cerecloth and bandages. Figure 3 shows fragments of Egyptian characters imprinted on the mummy's bandages. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink in bottom left corner, 'Drawn by Henry Perry, March 1822.' Royal Society stamp verso.
Subject: Anthropology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An essay on Egyptian mummies; with observations on the art of embalming among the ancient Egyptians' by Augustus Bozzi Granville.
Read to the Royal Society on 14 April 1825. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Watercolour |
| PhysicalDescription | Watercolour on paper |
| Dimensions | 328x222mm |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1825.0015 |
| DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1815.0260 |
| RelatedRecord | PT/18/1 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7466 | Granville; Augustus Bozzi (1783 - 1872) | 1783 - 1872 |