Casting Metal, Tomb of Rekhmire
ca. 1479–1400 B.C.
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
facsimile: h. 59 cm (23 1/4 in); w. 90.5 cm (35 5/8 in) Scale 1:1 framed: h. 24 3/8 in; w. 36 1/8 in
Classification
Facsimile, Rekhmire (TT 100), metal casting
Period
New Kingdom
Department
Egyptian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.8.5
Tags
About this artwork
This facsimile painting reproduces a scene of metalworkers from the Tomb of Rekhmire at Thebes, depicting craftsmen engaged in bronze casting during Egypt's New Kingdom period, circa 1479-1400 B.C. Nina de Garis Davies created this watercolor reproduction at full scale (1:1), measuring approximately twenty-three by thirty-six inches, during the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The image captures metalworkers tending furnaces, pouring molten metal, and finishing cast objects...
About the Artist
Nina de Garis Davies · 1881–1965
Nina de Garis Davies, born Anna Macpherson Cummings on January 6, 1881, in Salonika, Greece, to English-Scottish parents Cecil J. Cummings and Sarah Macintosh Tannoch, showed early artistic talent as the eldest of three daughters. After her father's death in 1894, the family relocated to Scotland and then London, where she trained at the Slade School of Art. In 1906, at age 25, a holiday trip to E...