Ormonde Maddock Dalton
British art historian

Ormonde Maddock Dalton

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British art historian
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Ormonde Maddock Dalton (1866–1945) was a British museum curator and archaeologist.
From 1921 to 1928 he was Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities Department at the British Museum.

Works

  • Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (1910) with Thomas Athol Joyce.
  • Byzantine Art and Archaeology (1911), handbook of art and artefacts.
  • Origin of Christian Church Art' (1923), translation with Hermann Justus Braunholtz from Josef Strzygowski.
  • East Christian Art (1925).

He also wrote under the pseudonym W. Compton Leith.