Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.

Series of panoramic city views of Cairo, central image includes several important mosques:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, middle row of text] 'Prise d'Eau', 'Plaine où eut lieu la Bataille entre les Français et les Mamelouks.', 'Mosquée Sultan Hassan', 'Couvent des Derviches', 'Mosquée Ibrahim Aga', 'Mosquée El-Moyed'. (ink notes)
• [on recto, bottom right side] '2'. (ink note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'PANORAMA DU CAIRE'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] 'nº 7'. (ink note)
• 56 by 11.4 cm

Bayn el-Qasrain (Between the Two Palaces) street in Cairo, with the madrasas of Sultans Qalawun and Barquq on the left and the madrasa of Sultan al-Zahir Baybars ahead:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Grande rue au Caire'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] '1. Grande Rue du Caire'. (ink note)
• 25 by 34.5 cm

Limestone colossus of Ramesses II from the south gate of the Ptah enclosure at Mit Rahina:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left edge] 'colosse de Memphis (SESOSTRIS) [ ] de Cambises Ses[ ]'. (ink note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Colosse de Memphis'. (ink note)
• 34.5 by 25 cm

Entrance to the tomb of Khnumhotep III at Beni Hasan (tomb 3):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'BENI-HASSAN. TOMBEAUX. Portique à l'entrée d'un Tombeau'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] 'nº 11'. (ink note)
• 27.5 by 19.2 cm

View of the hypostyle area of the temple of Khonsu within the Karnak temple complex:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'KARNAC, Temple de Khons'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] 'nº 16'. (ink note)
• 16.5 by 24.5 cm

Cartouches of Ramesses II from the Ramesseum:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top edge] '-Thebes-'. (ink note)
• [on recto]'Cartouche du fragment de belle statue calcaire dans l'avenue de sphinx au temple près de -Gournah-'. (ink note)
• 7.5 by 10.6 cm

View of the remains of Qurna Temple:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Temple de Gournah'. (ink note)
• 18.9 by 9.6 cm

Bust of colossus of Ramesses II originally from the 2nd southern court of the Ramesseum, now in the British Museum (EA 19):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'au British museum'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] '[ ] British [ ]'. (ink note)
• 7.5 by 10.6 cm

Partial view of the pillars and architraves of the great temple at Karnak:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'Comparaison des différents ordres Egyptiens'. (ink note)
• 22.1 by 16.4 cm

Partial view of the pillars and architraves of the great temple at Karnak:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top right corner] '1'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'Comparaison des différents ordres Egyptiens'. (ink note)
• 20.9 by 19.9 cm

View of the Valley of the Kings, including a partial view of the entrance to the tomb of Ramesses VII (KV 1):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'VALLÉE des TOMBEAUX, TOMBEAU de RHAMSÈS VI'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] 'nº 25'. (ink note)
• 21.6 by 18 cm

Relief scene from the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11, Valley of the Kings), including the seated figure of the god Onuris-Shu before a harpist (16):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom right] 'OSIRIS (le Nil) Rhamsès Maiamoun'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'Tombeau de Rhamsès Meïamoun'. (ink note)
• 19 by 17.9 cm

Section plan of the tomb of Sety I (KV 17, Valley of the Kings), with a detail of outer lintel cartouches of the king between kneeling winged Maats at (8):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top right] '2'. (ink note)
• [on recto, right side] 'nº 17 Menefta la déesse Tmei (double verité et justice) protege les cartouches de Menephta Ier et voire detail planche XI ouvrage Lenormant.'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Coupe et plan du Tombeau de Ménephta 1er'. (ink note)
• 55 by 17.1 cm

Relief of the king in an adoring pose at (14) ii.3 from the tomb of Ramesses IX (KV 6, Valley of the Kings):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, left side] 'ceinture [ ]'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'Peintures des Tombeaux de la Vallée des Reines'. (ink note)
• 15.9 by 23.3 cm

A set of three small engravings mounted together, representing the names of the twelve calendar months in hieroglyphs:

• engraving
• mounted
• [on engraving, reading right to left] '3', '2' and '1'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] 'Peintures des Tombeaux de la Vallée des Reines'. (ink note)
• 27 by 1.7 cm (made up of three engravings, each one 9 by 1.7 cm)

Partial view of the architecture of an Islamic building:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'Construction Arabe moderne.' (ink note)
• 13.5 by 19.6 cm

View of the second court of the great temple of Medinet Habu in Thebes:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom right edge] 'Medinet abou'. (ink note)
• [on mount, verso] '1. Temple de Medinet Abou'. (ink note)
• 34.2 by 24.6 cm

Two views of the stone quarries at Tura, both painted on the same sheet:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, right side] 'carrieres de Thora, Au dessus de Thora rive gauche. mirage de soleil'. (ink note)
• 32.2 by 22.7 cm

View of the temple of Horus at Edfu:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] '1. Vue du Temple d'Edfou'. (ink note)
• 33.6 by 22.3 cm

View of the great Ptolemaic temple at Kom Ombo:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] '1 Koum Ombos'. (ink note)
• 33.4 by 22.8 cm

View of the island and temple remains of Philae:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto] 'Ile de Philae Juin 1838'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'ILE DE PHILÆ'. (ink note)
• 53.9 by 34.8 cm

View of the remains of the Isis temple at Dabod:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto] 'N.R.O. DEBOUDE'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'TEMPLE de DEBOUDE'. (ink note)
• 25 by 16.1 cm

Plan of the New Kingdom temple at el-Sebua:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left] 'Plan du temple de Hemi-speos à ouadi-Asseboua (vallée des lions)'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'NUBIE.R.O '28 mai'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] '3. Plan et détails'. (ink note)
• 31.1 by 8.7 cm

Drawings of the cartouches of Ramesses II from the New Kingdom temple at el-Sebua (numbered 2 and 3):

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, left side] '1. les figures de la cour pareilles à celles de Ghirché l'embrasemr de porte à droite est plus refouillé pour l'épaisseur de la porte'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, right side] '4. les colosses à droite et à gauche de la porte sont à terre ils sont figurés debout dans la vue pour donner plus d'intéret'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] '3. Plan et détails'. (ink note)
• 31.1 by 7 cm

View of the second cataract at Wadi Halfa, with seated figures in the foreground:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'Nubie.R.O. Vue de la 2e cataracte prise du rocher des visiteurs à noms) en regardt le sud. 14 mai 1838'. (ink note)
• [on mount] 'Mr Horeau, arrivé à la 2e Cataracte, inscrit son nom sur un rocher'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'Haute-Egypte La 2e Cataracte, limite de l'Exploration de M. H. Horeau'. (ink note)
• 25.2 by 17.2 cm

Sketch of Nubian men:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto] 'FARAS nubie'. (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Types Nubiens'. (pencil note)
• 15.8 by 10.5 cm

Sketch of a barque with aegis from a relief scene in side-room D at (9) in the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11, Valley of the Kings):

• watercolour
• mounted
• 21.6 by 17.4 cm

Barque with three men standing inside and wedjat eyes painted on the exterior, possibly from a tomb scene:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Thebes'. (pencil note)
• 18 by 6.3 cm

Barque with a naos shrine in the centre, and possibly a barque sphinx at the bow. Possibly from a tomb scene:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Thebes'. (pencil note)
• 18 by 7.7 cm