| RefNo | PT/73/11/17 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Drawing, head of mummy by Henry Perry |
| Date | November 1821 |
| Description | Plate 21 showing a study of the mummy's head, inscribed with the lengths of various sections of the head and the facial angle at 80 degrees. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed in ink and struck out in bottom left corner [viewed landscape], 'Drawn by Henry Perry Novr 1821.' Inscribed in pencil in the bottom left corner [viewed portrait] is 'Henry Perry delt.' and in the bottom right corner, 'Jas [James] Basire sculpt.' 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 | Drawing |
| PhysicalDescription | Graphite on paper |
| Dimensions | 337x228p |
| 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 |