Lord Carnarvon
Photographic portrait of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923), c.1922. Lord Carnarvon was the wealthy, English amateur egyptologist who financed Howard Carter's excavations in the Valley of the Kings in 1922-3. He was one of the first people to enter Tutankhamen's tomb. Pictured in The Tatler shortly before the tomb's historic opening and Carnarvon's subsequent death that year
Picture No
13990237
Media ID
45428902
Size
3700px x 4786px
(1.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Walter Thomas in The Tatler, 14 February 1923
Date
1923
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