Finding aid for the study photographs of ancient coins 76.P.3

Ann Harrison

Special Collections

2009

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Los Angeles 90049-1688

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Contributing Institution: Special Collections

Title: Study photographs of ancient coins

Creator: Getty Research Institute

Creator: Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973

Creator: Rheinisches Bildarchiv

Creator: Hirmer Fotoarchiv

Creator: Rosen, Jonathan, 1944-

Identifier/Call Number: 76.P.3

Physical Description: 8.7 Linear Feet (41 boxes)

Date (inclusive): 1900s

Abstract: A collection of photographs of ancient coins, predominantly Greek and Roman, assembled by the Getty Research Institute.

Language of Material: English .

Scope and Content of Collection

An assembled collection of photographs of ancient coins, predominantly Greek and Roman. The major source for these modern prints is the commercial vendor Hirmer Fotoarchiv (circa 2,800 photographs). Other sources include the Rheinisches Bildarchiv (especially for material from the western Roman empire, circa 200 prints); Bulloz; Photographie Giraudon; Alinari; and Christie's (circa 100 prints). Approximately 200 photographs were transferred from the repository's Becatti archive, and circa 107 were produced in a project undertaken in connection with the publication of an exhibition of 50 coins from the Jonathan Rosen collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1983.

Arrangement

Arranged in two sections of photographic prints and a third section of negatives. The first section of prints is arranged by culture, and then by location or type of material. The second section is arranged alphabetically by vendor.

Biographical/Historical Note

In 1974, the J. Paul Getty Museum began assembling a "photo library" by consolidating the visual resources of each existing curatorial department. By the early 1980s, the Photo Archive was actively acquiring large collections of photographs from commercial and private sources and scholars' archives that contained a photographic component. In 1983, the nearly one million photographs of the Photo Archive were incorporated into the Research Institute's Special Collections.

Access

Open for use by qualified researchers. For further information, consult the Guide to the Photo Archive and Database .

Publication Rights

Photographs and permission to publish must be obtained from copyright holder(s). For further information, contact Library Reproductions and Permissions .

Other Finding Aids

The Photo Archive Database includes photograph level access to approximately 1% of the photographs in this collection.

Processing History

Finding aid created in 2009.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Coins, Greek

Coins, Roman

Photographic prints

Coins, Ancient

Becatti, Giovanni, 1912-1973 -- Photograph collections

Study photographs of ancient coins

By culture

Greek

Arrangement

The Greek coins are arranged by the current country of the ancient mint location.

box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5

Greece

box 6, box 7

Italy

box 8, box 9, box 10

Sicily

box 11, box 12

Turkey

box 13

Other mints and mintage unknown

Roman

box 14, box 15, box 16

Coins

box 17

Impressions and molds

box 18

Other cultures: Etruscan, Graeco-Persian, Punic

By photograph source

box 19

Becatti archive; Christie's

box 20, box 21

Getty Museum

box 22, box 23, box 24, box 25, box 26, box 27, box 28, box 29, box 30, box 31, box 32, box 33, box 34, box 35, box 36, box 37

Hirmer Fotoarchiv

box 38

Rheinisches Bildarchiv

box 39

Jonathan Rosen Collection of Archaic coins

box 40

Emile Serafis; Smithsonian Inst.; Walters Art Gallery; unknown and miscellaneous sources

box 41

Negatives