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Human figures

Four pencil sketches:

  • top centre: two men with staffs; one standing, one sitting
  • middle left: man standing
  • middle middle: five men sitting and standing
  • middle right: man standing
  • bottom: three men and two camels.

The Damascus Gate; men riding donkeys; a shaduf; camels; and water bearers

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

  • top left: man on donkey
  • top middle: shaduf
    • [on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
  • top right: man on donkey
  • middle left: man
  • middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
    • [on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
  • middle right: man
  • bottom left: two camels
  • bottom middle: man
  • bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
    • [on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)

Mountains above Thebes; mountains above Moramballa Marsh

Two images:

  • upper: watercolour of the mountains above Thebes
    • [on mount] 'Mountain range above Luxor. East Bank.' (ink note)
  • lower: clipping with engraving of landscape with caption: 'Mansanga, looking east from Moramballa Marsh'
    • [on clipping] Extraordinary resemblance to mountain range near Thebes, R. Bank. See sketch by ABE. S. East Africa. On the river [illegible], flowing out of Lake Nyassa, + into the Zambesi. This is near the mouth of the [illegible].' (pencil note).

Dendarah landscape, human figures, Nerghaileh

Nine sketches:

  • top left: pencil sketch of donkey
  • top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
    • [on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
  • top right: pencil sketch of man wading
  • middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
  • middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
    • [on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
  • middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
  • bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
    • [on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
  • bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
    • [on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (ink note).

Ali the Nubian; Riskalli; Salame; Reïs Hassan; unidentified people

Nine pencil sketches:

  • top left: person with staff
  • top middle: man sitting and smoking
    • [on mount] 'Ali, the Nubian.' (ink note)
  • top right: veiled woman with jars
  • middle left: head of man
    • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
  • middle middle: group of men with boat near Manfalut
    • [on mount] 'Group of Natives (waiting for the Ferry) Manfaloot' (ink note)
  • middle right: Man sitting
    • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
  • bottom left: Reïs Hassan
    • [on mount] 'Reïs Hassan' (ink note)
  • bottom middle: man reclining on ?carved block
  • bottom right: man standing
    • [on mount] 'Salame' (ink note).

Waterwheel, Sîut

Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:

  • mounted
  • [on sketch] 'Near Siout. Jany 1 1874' (painted note)
  • [on mount] 'Waterwheel. Siout' (ink note).

Human figures

9 pencil sketches:

  • top left: man leaning on staff and woman with jar
  • top middle: man
  • top right: two women, one with a child
  • middle left: woman with jar
  • middle middle: man sitting
  • middle right: woman with child
  • bottom left: woman collecting water
  • bottom middle: man with pipe
  • bottom left: two men.

Title page

Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:

  • mounted
  • [on mount, top] 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • [on mount] 'In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (ink note)

Front end paper

Front end paper with pasted note:

  • 'This volume was re-bound through the generosity of AEMES (Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society, Lincolnshire), Manchester Ancient Egypt Society and the Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (Derbyshire) in August 2002' (printed).

Egypt large album

Album containing drawings and watercolours during visit to Egypt in the winter of 1873-1874. Many of the preliminary sketches and watercolours in the album were used to illustrate her book A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, published in 1877.

  • Annotation on the title page: 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • 38 numbered pages with 107 mounted items
  • includes watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Egypt, many with Edwards' annotated captions

Albums

This group consists of four albums.

  • Edwards MSS 2.1: Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874.
  • Edwards MSS 2.2: Watercolours and drawings made in the Dolomites, 1872.
  • Edwards MSS 2.3: Ephemera, including some Egypt and Dolomite-related material, 1872-1891.
  • Edwards MSS 2.4: Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874.

Notes and ephemera

This group consists of two parts:

  • Edwards MSS 1.1-311
    • notebook with annotation on the cover: 'Notes & Extracts' (ink note)
    • 311 numbered ruled pages, with some loose and affixed items
    • includes a range of handwritten and printed material, watercolours and drawings
  • Edwards MSS 1.312-347
    • 1 package containing 36 loose numbered items
    • ephemera, mixed media, including handwritten notes, letters, sketches, rubbings, poems, newspaper cutting etc.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

  • Edwards, A. A. B. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1856-1892
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
  • Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
  • Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
  • Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
  • First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

Marianne Eaton-Krauss Collection

  • Eaton-Krauss MSS
  • Collection
  • 1966-2024
  • Correspondence with other Egyptologists (now deceased) and some miscellaneous correspondence. Includes Eaton-Krauss's exchanges with Cyril Aldred, Martha R. Bell, Bernard V. Bothmer, Jochen Briegleb, Helmut Brunner, Ricardo A. Caminos, Henry G. Fischer, Wolfgang Helck, Barry J. Kemp, Christine Lilyquist, Jaromir Malek, Geoffrey T. Martin, William Murnane, James Romano, John Romer, and Walter Segal.
  • Notes and correspondence relating to articles and books peer-reviewed by Eaton-Krauss.
  • Recommendations for appraisals of academic posts.
  • Correspondence with Marc Gabolde between 1987 and 2023 about a research project to study the monuments associated with king Tutankhamun in the Temple of Karnak; accompanied by a chronological sum
  • Folder with items relating to a Festschrift contribution on the el-Tôd Treasure, in press.
  • Folder with items relating to her participation in "Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference" (Luxor, 4-6 November 2022).

Marianne Eaton-Krauss

Eugène Victor Dévaud Collection

  • Dévaud MSS
  • Collection
  • 1920s

A card index for a Coptic etymological dictionary and a large folder containing handwritten notes on Coptic etymologies, labelled "Devaud - 'Studies and Notes on Egyptian and Coptic Grammar, Lexicography and Palaeography'" (apparently unpublished).

Dévaud, Eugène Victor

Terence DuQuesne Collection

  • DuQuesne MSS
  • Collection
  • 1970s-2014

Complete papers, including manuscripts, photographs and digital files.

DuQuesne, Terence

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