art training at a school in Bushey w. Sir Hubert von Herkomer. 1911-13 Univ.College London, certificate in egyptology w. Flinders Petrie
Egypt
Alan Henderson Gardiner (ed.) The Temple of King Sethos I at Abydos, Vol. I: The Chapels of Osiris, Isis and Horus Copied by Amice M. Calverley, w. assistance of Myrtle F. Broome
(1933); Vol. II: The Chapels of Amen-Re', Re'-Harakhti, Ptah, and King Sethos Copied by Amice M. Calverley, w. the assistance of Myrtle F. Broome; Vol. III: The Osiris Complex Copied by Amice M. Calverley, with the assistance of Myrtle F. Broome; Vol. IV: The Second Hypostyle Hall Copied by Amice M. Calverley, w. the assistance of Myrtle F. Broome (1958)
British School of Archeology, Egypt Exploration Society , University of Chicago Oriental Institute
John Ruffle: Myrtle Florence Broome, in#. Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archeology (2017), Morris Bierbrier: Who was who in Egyptology (London 2012: 82) ;
From 1927 to 1937, Broome work in Egypt, initially at Qau under the auspices of the British School of Archaeology copying tomb inscriptions. In 1929, Broome was hired as -> Amice M. Calverley's assistant. During eight seasons at the Temple, the two women were responsible for all the paintings and replications, with the help of a small staff of artists. Besides using large photographs to record the reliefs, the artists penciled over lines and inscriptions for a completely accurate rendering. Broome & Calverley also used watercolor paintings to provide color to the reproductions, because only black and white photography was available at the time. 4 vol.s w. coloured plates were publ. by Univ. of Chicago 1933-1958
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