Watton and Swaffham Times
A Norfolk museum has received a gift of paintings linked to the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.They are the work of relations of the Egyptologist Howard Carter who grew up in Swaffham.
A Norfolk museum has received a gift of paintings linked to the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.They are the work of relations of the Egyptologist Howard Carter who grew up in Swaffham.
The four pictures have been loaned to Swaffham Museum by Susan Allen, from Swaffham, and they include two landscape scenes by William Carter.The Swaffham Museum is located in Norfolk, U.K. and has its own website.
A third painting, that is signed by Henry Carter and dated 1916, is of Sporle Road House, in Swaffham. There is also a picture of a foal in a forest by HW Carter that was painted in 1885.
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