Funeral Procession, Tomb of Pairy

Nina de Garis Davies

ca. 1390–1352 B.C.

Funeral Procession, Tomb of Pairy by Nina de Garis Davies

Medium

Tempera on paper

Dimensions

facsimile: h. 48.5 cm (19 1/8 in); w. 192 cm (75 9/16 in) scale 1:1 framed: h. 52/1 cm (20 1/2 in); w. 195.6 cm (77 in)

Classification

Facsimile, Pairy (TT 139), funeral

Period

New Kingdom

Department

Egyptian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1935

Accession Number

35.101.3

Tags

MenWomenFuneralsProcessionsCoffins

About the Artist

Nina de Garis Davies · 18811965

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...

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