Painting a (Watercolour) Picture of Flinders Petrie’s Fieldwork at Meidum

Abstract

This short communication is a discussion of a series of watercolours of Flinders Petrie’s excavations at Meidum made by Henry Eliot Howard, a visitor to the site in 1891. These watercolours add a new visual record to the archive of nineteenth century excavations, in particular showcasing how Petrie lived and worked whilst on site.[Formula: see text]