[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939)

[CARTER HOWARD]: (1874-1939) English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Manuscript list of illustrations, unsigned and in an unidentified hand, one page, folio, n.p., n.d. (c.1927). The page is headed The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen and relates to the illustrations to appear in Volume II of Carter´s book The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume II - Burial Chamber & Mummy (1927). The list comprises twenty-five plate illustrations, each individually numbered and with an indication of the page number and text of the relevant caption, including a frontispiece portrait of Tutankhamen, a first glimpse of the sarcophagus, the mummy of the King, a floral and bead collarette, an alabaster calcite lamp, a cosmetic jar, several of the King´s gold coffin, and the King´s perfume box etc. Annotated to the verso ´List of Subjects´. A few minor creases, VG