Thutmose I and His Mother Seniseneb
A.D. 1925; original ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
Medium
Tempera on paper
Dimensions
Facsimile: H. 81.5 cm (32 1/16 in.); W. 71 cm (27 15/16 in.) scale 1:1 Framed: H. 83.3 cm (32 13/16 in.); W. 73.1 cm (28 3/4 in.)
Classification
Facsimile, Hatshepsut-Temple, Thutmose I, Seniseneb
Period
New Kingdom
Department
Egyptian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.4.137
Tags
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...