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Metropolitan to Begin Scientific Work Under Direction of Mr. Lythgoe. From the New York Herald. Scientific work in the field, begin ning with excavations in Upper Egypt, will in the future be among the ac tivities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This entirely new departure on the part of the museum has taken shape in the appointment of Albert Morton Lythgoe as curator of the de partment of Egyptian art, a position he formerly held at the Boston Fine Arts Museum. Mr. Lythgoe leaves shortly for Up per Egypt, where he will superintend excavations for ancient Egyptian art treasures. The members of the ex pedition will then go to Oxford, where, with the aid of the Ashmolean and other collections and the fine archaeo logical library, they will formulate re sults and then bring their “finds” to America and install them in the mu seum. Among recent accessions to the mu seum which were shown by Sith Pur don Clarke, Edward Robinson and Roger E. Fry, are a marble statue of Eirene, goddess of peace; a “Por trait of a Man,” by Holbein, and an allegorical figure of Neptune, by Van Dyck. Both pictures are early examples. The Holbein was recently discovered, is a fine work in spite of being an extremely youthful one, and is con sidered an important purchase by the museum authorities. The Van Dyck came from Genoa and there is a tra dition that the head of Neptune is a portrait of one of the Dorias. Samuel Putnam Avery has presented to the museum a four leaved book of gold, an example of the goldsmith’s art of Annam. The subject of the text is a decree of the Emperor Gya long, conferring a patent of nobility upon his deceased grandmother. An other gift, the late William Cruger Pell's collection of peasant headdress from Westphalia, Bavaria and the Au strian Tyrol, comes from Mr. Pell's daughter, Mrs. Ridgely Hunt.
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Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Wed, Nov 21, 1906
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