Tutankhamen - Egyptian Pharaoh (18th Dynasty) by David Smith for Reuters


Tutankhamen - Egyptian Pharaoh (18th Dynasty) by David Smith for Reuters

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Tutankhamen - Egyptian Pharaoh (18th Dynasty) by David Smith for Reuters :
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A Vintage

Lithograph

of

\"Tutankhamen\"

(Egyptian Pharoah)

Lithographed from \"Reuters World\" No. 56. September 1988

This item comprises the portrait as described above in good condition for its age.

LARGE FORMAT

Overall Size:- 15\" x 21\" approxincluding the margins and text to left-hand-side.

Image Size:-7\" x11\" approx

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About the subject.....

Tutankhamun (alternatively spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom.

He is popularly referred to as King Tut. His original name, Tutankhaten, means \"Living Image of Aten\", while Tutankhamun means \"Living Image of Amun\".

In hieroglyphs, the name Tutankhamun was typically written Amen-tut-ankh, because of a scribal custom that placed a divine name at the beginning of a phrase to show appropriate reverence. He is possibly also the Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters, and likely the 18th dynasty king Rathotis who, according to Manetho, an ancient historian, had reigned for nine years—a figure that conforms with Flavius Josephus\'s version of Manetho\'s Epitome.

The 1922 discovery by Howard Carter and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon of Tutankhamun\'s nearly intact tomb received worldwide press coverage.

It sparked a renewed public interest in ancient Egypt, for which Tutankhamun\'s burial mask, now in Cairo Museum, remains the popular symbol. Exhibits of artifacts from his tomb have toured the world. In February 2010, the results of DNA tests confirmed that he was the son of Akhenaten (mummy KV55) and Akhenaten\'s sister and wife (mummy KV35YL), whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as \"The Younger Lady\" mummy found in KV35

NB: This image includes a brief biography to the left of the image (as shown) It will frame well with, or without the text.

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About the Artist.....

David Smith was born in Kings Lynn, Norfolk in 1943, and studied at both St Martin\'s School of Art and the Central School before taking a BA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, followed by an MA in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London.Since the early seventies he has concentrated on caricature, appearing at different times - often at the same time - in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Observer, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The Independent, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Times Supplements, as well as magazines including Punch, The Listener, Radio Times, UK Press Gazette, Musical Times and The Strad.In 1994 he relocated to New York where he lived for eight years, and was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New York Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others. He also lectured on American art to English students at the Metropolitan Museum. In 2002 Smith moved to Paris, where he concentrated on the European market, one result of which was a weekly profile in Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 2006 he has lived in London.Smith uses black pen-and-ink, and employs a tight cross-hatching technique using a crow-quill nib. For colour work he generally uses the same technique with added wash. An admirer of Andre Gill, David Levine, and \"Trog\" (Wally Fawkes), Smith admitted in 1990 that although it was helpful to have met the subject of a caricature, \"the process of exaggeration and disfigurement works far better in isolation armed with a battery of good photographs, a few drinks and a modicum of spleen.\" Examples of Smith\'s work are in The Ashmolean museum in Oxford.

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