A portrait of a woman and child in Upper Egypt; the woman carries the young child on her left shoulder and holds a small round vessel in her left hand; they stand in front of a raised bank with two palm trees beyond:
watercolour
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 041 and Lloyd MSS 042
8.9 x 12.7 cm
[on mount] 'Costume of Upper Egypt.' (ink note)
[on mount] '40' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] 'Costume of Upper Egypt / 9th April 1843.' (pencil note)
Woman carrying a menat and floral a bouquet, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
25 x 34.9 cm
[on mount] 'From a Tomb.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '18' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'From a tomb to the N. perhaps No 5. or / near it. / 11 July 1843. / The paintings are stiff but the style is not bad. / The details are very much worked out. All the / heads of the women were effaced, it is said by / Mr. Hay's draughtsman. I have restored the face, the / band round the head, and the feet.' (pencil note)
Decorative pattern from a boat-cabin, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:
pencil and watercolour drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing/watercolour] 'Tomb near 9. / Gurna. Thebes. / 25th Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'W.C. / [encircled] 58' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing/watercolour] 'Part of a Naos in a boat. / This would make a handsome Lambris arranged in a straight / line. / 25th Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
Two men in a pool collecting water in large jars (for brick-making), detail from a scene in the tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenophis II, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right)
mounted
35.2 x 45.6 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Taking fish out of a tank. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 35 ? / 10th July 1843.' (pencil note)
Two female guests with two female attendants pouring water or oil onto the head of one of them, detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Ptahemhet (TT 77), later usurped by Roy, temp. Tuthmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (right <twice> and bottom)
mounted
66.2 x 46 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Lady in a bath. / Tomb at Thebes. No. 15 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
Agricultural scenes including waiting mule-chariot, man asleep under tree, boy playing pipe, men carrying and threshing grain, from the tomb of Khaemhet (TT 57), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes::
The young Amenhotep II seated on the lap of the royal nurse Amenemopet and holding captives, from a scene of the tomb of Amenemopet's son, Kenamun (TT 93), temp. Amenhotep II, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes: -pencil drawing
mounted
24.9 x 34.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Amenophth 2nd and Ramaithä / Tomb 33. 17th July 1843.' (pencil note)
Three female musicians seated on the ground, one playing the double-pipe and the other two clapping, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 2nd Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '25' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'These women are under the others which I have copied / playing on the Harp, the double pipe, the lute and / the onestringed mandolin. Their faces have been / I believe also purposely defaced, and whoever traced / those above has used sealing wax to fasten the / paper.' (pencil note)
Thebes, a harp with the uppermost terminal decorated with the head of Tuthmosis IV, detail from a scene of presentation of royal gifts to the Temple of Amun, in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
24.9 x 35 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Harp. / Tomb, near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '29' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'This is one of the most exquisite things / I have seen in the tombs. It is not finished / for the tomb has never been completed. / The headdress is blue, the band and pendants / and serpent yellow or gold, the staff of the / Harp gold, and the base, silver or white.' (pencil note)
Five female musicians playing the harp, lute, double-pipe, lyre and tambourine, accompanied by a small female dancer, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '12' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Female Minstrels. / Tomb to which there is a forced passage from / No 17. / 1st Sept / 2nd Sept / } / 1843. / With exception of the first face on the left, all the others have been / carefully injured. I have restored these. The date of the tomb / I do not know, but it is probably about Amenophth 3rd. The / paintings are very badly done, and the tomb is unfinished. / The colours however are very fresh. There is in this as in other / tombs different colours for the females. The harper is yellow, / but the next woman is rather copper coloured, so is the / little girl, and the lute player. Were they women from the / Upper country, brought expressly for their national instru / ments? The girdle was not confined to the Upper country / women. Sotennofrä wears it.' (pencil note)
Three musicians (woman with harp, man with lute and woman with double-pipe), detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Female servant bringing a gazelle and a tray laden with grapes, from a wall painting in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
A priest, wearing a long cloak and carrying a staff, and a priestess, from the funeral cortege accompanying the sarcophagus which is being dragged to the tomb, in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Two rows of female mourners squatting on the ground, detail from a funerary scene in the tomb of Haremhab (TT 78), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right <twice>)
mounted
38.1 x 44.8 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Women mourners wailing. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 16 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
Man fishing with a harpoon while seated on the riverbank at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes; next to him is a rod and line which has a live mouse suspended from it, presumably the mouse is being used as bait or a lure:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 114
25.7 x 17.7 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Gurna. Thebes. 20th Aug. 1843.' (pencil note)