File E. W. Lane MSS 8 - Album of watercolours and drawings

Cover Enclosure 1 Enclosure 2 Enclosure 2 Photograph - portrait bust of E. W. Lane Man walking ahead of another man on horseback Four Egyptian women in house Egyptian village of Rasheed Bab al-Nasr gate, Cairo Courtyard, Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, Cairo Colonnade, Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, Cairo Southern Cemetery at Cairo, with funeral procession Head of Great Sphinx, Giza Sunrise at Giza Cairo Citadel Aqueduct, Fumm al-Khalig water intake tower Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo Limestone colossus of Ramesses II, Mit Rahina Hawara pyramid Temple wall scene with Seti I in a chariot, Karnak Tomb wall scene, priest with offerings before man and wife, probably TT 59 Temple wall scene, tribute, Beit el-Wali Tomb wall scene, hoeing and ploughing, El Kab Tomb wall scene, harvesting, El Kab Tomb wall scene, treading and winnowing grain, El Kab Tomb wall scene, picking and treading grapes, El Kab Temple wall scenes, Karnak Tomb wall scene, female musicians, tomb of Amenhotep-si-si, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna Tomb wall scene, gazelle suckling fawn, Giza

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E. W. Lane MSS 8

Title

Album of watercolours and drawings

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  • c. 1825-1876 (Creation)

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1 album

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Name of creator

Lane, Edward William
(1801-1876)

Archival history

E. W. Lane annotated the captions written in pencil on the album's pages. This suggests that Lane arranged for this selection of items to be mounted in the album, which he then presented to someone.
Formerly in possession of Mrs May C. Buckton (died c.1950), who was married to Bishop Buckton, Bishop of Gibraltar or Malta. Mrs Buckton later gifted it to "Kitten and Rosemary", date unknown. This information is taken from two enclosures kept with the album.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Forum Auctions, London. Books and Works on Paper, Online Sale, 23 March 2023, Lot 14.
Acquired by the Griffith Institute at auction thanks to a grant from the Friends of the National Libraries (75%) and a number of donations to the Griffith Institute Archive (25%).

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Scope and content

The album contains 23 original studies, including the photographic portrait of a sculptural bust of Lane, two fully worked drawings with watercolour, eleven monochrome watercolours with pen and ink landscapes and views, and ten pencil studies of wall reliefs. Many of these images include handwritten captions in pencil that are almost certainly added by E. W. Lane himself on the opposing page of the mounted image. This indicates that Lane arranged for this selection of items to be mounted in the album, which was then presented to someone.

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Kept as received.

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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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  • Album with clamshell case
    • Clamshell case, one drop side,
      • Green linen binding, lined with green velvet(?)
      • 28.5 x 22.5 x 7.0 cm
    • Album
      • Green linen and leather binding with gilded details and edges
      • 26.2 x 19.8 x 5.8 cm
      • Marbled end-papers

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  • The page numbers written in pencil were assigned in the Griffith Institute on accession.

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  • The album has been catalogued by Jen Turner and Elizabeth Fleming.

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