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Exhibition: Macpherson paintings of Tutankhamun discovery

Strathspey and Badenoch Herald

Douglas Macpherson was the only artist invited to depict the breathtaking sights the team uncovered in 1922 on their treasure-hunting expedition to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.

This year the little-known part played by Macpherson in the world-famous expedition will be commemorated at Newtonmore's Clan Macpherson Museum, in a new exhibition featuring images from the original paintings destroyed by the Luftwaffe.

Museum spokesman Ewen MacPherson said: "When Lord Caernarvon and Howard Carter team went to Luxor and excavated the tomb of King Tutankhamen, Douglas Macpherson was the only artist sent to make watercolour drawings at the opening of the tomb and the sarcophagus.

"Copies of his work form part of this exhibition. Unfortunately, the original paintings stored in the archives of The Sphere in London were destroyed during the blitz in World War II."

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