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One of his earliest assignments was as draughtsman accompanying the investigations of the Swiss archaeologist, Henri Edouard Naville, at the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir al-Bahri. Between 1893 and 1899 Carter made copies of all the visible wall paintings and inscriptions, and these were later photographically reproduced in Naville's six folio volumes, The Temple of Deir el Bahari (1895-1908). This watercolour is a copy of one of the few representations of Queen Hatshepsut (who reigned as a pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, 1503-1482 BC) to survive defacement by her successor. 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