M0010369: Wall painting from Tomb of Djeserkara: ladies at their toilette and musicians at a banquet

Previous title, replaced February 2021: Egypt, ladies at their toilet & musicians at banquet, 1420 BC

Photograph of a wall painting from the Tomb of Djeserkara, Thebes, c.1420 B.C. The photograph was acquired by Captain Johnston-Saint, a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum employee who travelled extensively in Europe, the Middle East and India purchasing items for the museum.

08 December 1947

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.