Penelope Eames

Penelope Eames (née Fox) is a furniture historian and was the Assistant Secretary at the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, during the compilation of the Tutankhamun photograph archive.

Biography Fox was the Assistant Secretary at the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, during the late 1940s to 1952. During this time, she collaborated with Nora E. Scott, then at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to compare and try to make equivalent the two archives of photographs taken by Harry Burton of the objects from the Tomb of Tutankhamun. This process took nearly three years.

During her time at the Griffith Institute, she wrote Tutankhamun's Treasures (1951) and a 65-page report of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Griffith Institute's two collections of the images, both of which are published under the name Penelope Fox. At the time of her marriage, she left the Griffith Institute, She was awarded her MA in 1969, with a thesis entitled "The character and use of domestic furnishings in England as discernible from documentry and archaelogical evidence from the 11th-15th centuries." She completed her doctorate in 1975 at the University of Liverpool. Her tutors included Henry Mayr-Harting, Alexander Reginald Myers, Christopher N. L. Brooke, and Christopher T. Allmand. She also received funding from The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) and the University of Liverpool for the publication of her book.

Publications Fox published in both Egyptology and Furniture History, including:

Fox, Penelope (1951). Tutankhamun's treasure. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eames, Penelope (1971). "Documentary Evidence Concerning the Character and Use of Domestic Furnishings in England in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". Furniture History. 7: 41–60. ISSN 0016-3058. Eames, Penelope (1977). Furniture in England, France and the Netherlands from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. London: The Furniture History Society. . Eames, Penelope (1997). "The Making of a Hung Celour". Furniture History. 33: 35–42. ISSN 0016-3058.