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Design for 'Sketches of Ancient Egyptian Sculpture and Painting'

Design for a title-page for Lloyd's 'Sketches of Ancient Egyptian Sculpture and Painting' with the goddess Seshat and Maat, which are based on two other drawings in the same album (see Lloyd MSS 103 and Lloyd MSS 104):

  • pencil drawing
  • loose item, originally a tipped-in page perhaps for this album, with remains of mounting-strip on right side of verso
  • 25 x 34.9 cm (excluding mounting-strip)
  • [on drawing] 'SKETCHES OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING' (pencil note)

Explanatory note on design

Explanatory note on design:

  • pencil handwritten text
  • loose item, originally a tipped-in page perhaps for this album, with remains of mounting-strip on right side
  • 25.5 x 34.9 cm (including mounting-strip)
  • [text] 'I have drawn this simply as a title for my sketches. / The semicircle at the top, excepting the Cartouches / is from the doorway of the first vaulted Chamber / in the temple of El Assasief erected by Amensä / the mother of Thothmes 3rd. The other part is mere / composition. On the right is Thmai or Truth, and / on the left Safrä, the Goddess of Letters. The characters / are ornamented with the emblems of Lower and / Upper Egypt. The Cartouches are for Our Lady / Victoria, when I can get those from Birche's work. / 27th July sketched / 1st August finished / } / 1843 / { / G Lloyd. / Gurna / Thebes.'

Tell el-Farama (Pelusium), ruins of the citadel

Ruins of the citadel at Tell el-Farama (Pelusium):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 35.4 x 25.9 cm
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of the Citadel at Pelusium.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '5' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Ruins of the Citadel at Pelusium. / 17th Feb 1843.' (pencil note) [originally 16th, corrected to 17th]

Salhieh (Salhiya), Fellah village nearby

Fellah village near Salhieh (Salhiya):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 35.5 x 25.7 cm
  • [on mount] 'Fellah Village Salhiah.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '7' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] ''Fellah Village near my Tent(?). / Salhiah. 23rd Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)

Gebel Maghara near el-Arish

Gebel Maghara near el-Arish:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 35.3 x 26 cm
  • [on mount] 'Gebel Moghrarra near El Arish / From the Summit of a high sand hill near Tel El Fadda.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '11' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Gebel Maghrarra near El Arish. / Gebel [xxx] (?) near El Arish. / from the summit of a high sand hill near Tel El Fadda. / looking S.E. / 15th Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)

Tell el-Farama (Pelusium), ruins

Ruins of Tell el-Farama (Pelusium):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 35.1 x 25.8 cm
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of Peluseum from Tel El Fadda.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '12' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Ruins of Peluseum from Tel El Fadda. / 17th Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

Tell el-Farama (Pelusium), ruins

Ruins of Tell el-Farama (Pelusium):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 35.3 x 25.6 cm
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of Peluseum from Tel El Fadda.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '13' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Ruins of Peluseum or Tel El Faramah(?) / from Tel El Fadda. 16th Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)

Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis), view of the ruins

View of the ruins of Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis):

  • watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted
  • 35.6 x 26.2 cm
  • [on mount] 'Tel Euhudicah, from the Necropolis on the Eastward.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '15' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Tel Juhudieah / From the Necropolis on the Eastward. / 27th Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

Salhieh (Salhiya), a shadoof near Salhieh

A shadoof near Salhieh (Salhiya):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 26 x 35.5 cm
  • [on mount] 'A Sakieah near Salhicah.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '16' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'A Sakieah near Salhieah. / 8 Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)

Egypt, portrait of a man

Portrait of a man wearing a brown galabiya layered over a white one, a white and blue-striped headscarf over a brown skullcap, and red slippers, Egypt:

  • unfinished watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 020
  • 17.7 x 25.6 cm
  • [on mount] encircled '19' (pencil note)

Um Gummer

Um Gummer:

  • watercolour
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 021
  • 26 x 17.8 cm
  • [on mount] 'Um Gummer from the Eastward.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Um Gummer. From the Eastward / 20th Jan. 1843.' (ink note)

Salhieh (Salhiya), mourning women

Mourning women at Salhieh (Salhiya):

  • unfinished watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 025
  • 17.8 x 25.8 cm
  • [on recto of watercolour] 'Mourning dress of the Women at Salhiah. Kantara 11th Feb 1843' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] encircled '26' (pencil note)

Bilbeis, palm or a shrub with fern-like branches

A small palm tree or a shrub with fern-like branches at Bilbeis:

  • unfinished watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 028
  • 17.8 x 25.8 cm
  • [on mount] encircled '27' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Belbeis / 21st Jan. 1843.' (pencil note)

Alexandria, Pompey's Pillar

Pompey's Pillar at Alexandria:

  • unfinished watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 027
  • 17.7 x 25.8 cm
  • [on mount] 'Pompeys Pillar Alexandria.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '28' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Pompeys pillar, Alexandria. / 20th Nov. 1842. / Height 99ft. Capital 10ft. Shaft 60ft. / Angle of the pedestal N[?]. 22 E.' (pencil note)

Salhieh (Salhiya), common quail

Common quail at Salhieh (Salhiya):

  • watercolour
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 030 and Lloyd MSS 031
  • 17.4 x 12.1 cm
  • [on mount] encircled '29' [9 faded] (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Desert Partridge. / Rock Partridge / Gulla Arab. / 'Salhiah. 4th Feb. 1843.'

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, Forecourt

Forecourt of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak; view of the standing column of Taharqa with the entrance to the Second Pylon and Hypostyle beyond:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 24.9 x 34.9 cm
  • [on mount] 'Western Entrance of the Great Hypostyle Hall, / from the Court, Karnac.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] '45' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Western Entrance of the Great Hypostyle Hall, / from the Court. Karnac. / 1st July 1843.' (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, Hypostyle, columns

Columns in the Hypostyle of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 25.9 x 35.5 cm
  • [on mount] 'Interior of the Great Hypostile, Karnac, looking N.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] '46' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Interior of the Great Hypostyle Karnac. / Looking N. / 11th June 1843.' (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, Festival Temple, Pillared Hall, columns

Columns in the Pillared Hall of the Festival Temple (Akhmenu) in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

  • unfinished watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted
  • 35.5 x 25.4 cm
  • [on mount] 'The Colonade of Reversed Capitals in the palace of Thothmes 3rd' (ink note)
  • [on mount] '50' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] not legible (pencil note)

Deir el-Bahari, Great Temple of Hatshepsut, Room X preceding the Sanctuary, the young princess Neferubiti

The young princess Neferubiti, daughter of Tuthmosis I and Queen Ahmosi, wearing a side-lock and diadem and carrying a lotus-flower, from Room X preceding the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 25 x 34.9 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Sotennofrä. / Temple of Assasief / Thebes. 27th July 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'Sotennofrä the daughter of Thothmes the first. / from a high relief in the temple of Assasief. / Thebes. 27th July 1843.' (pencil note)
    -[on verso of drawing] 11 lines of text <difficult to read - not transcribed here> (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, Hypostyle, Exterior, North side, the upper part of Sethos I

The upper part of Seti I, detail from a battle scene showing the king mounting his chariot and dragging captives and Hittite chariots, on the North side of the exterior wall of the Hypostyle in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 35.3 x 26 cm
  • [on mount] 'Oseirei or Menephkak 1st Great Hypostile Karnac.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '15' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'Osirei, or Menephthah 1st / From the large bas reliefs on the / N part of the Great Hypostyle. Karnac. / 13th May. 1843.' (pencil note)

Deir el-Bahari, Great Temple of Hatshepsut, Chapel of Amun, Sanctuary, Side-room XII, West Wall, Hatshepsut carrying a staff and a mace

Hatshepsut carrying a staff and a mace, detail of a scene depicting Hatshepsut presenting offerings to Hathor and Tjenenet, on the West Wall of Side-room XII of the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 25 x 34.9 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Amenenthä. Assasief. 27th July 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '21' (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, Portico of the Bubastides, three Palestinian name-rings

Three Palestinian name-rings for Yad Hemmelek, Adar and Megiddo, detail from a scene depicting Sesonchis I (unfinished), with ka, smiting Asiatics before Amun and Waset, both holding Palestinian name-rings, on the exterior (South) face of the Portico of the Bubastides in the precinct of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 35.5 x 26 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Judahmalek - Ashtaroth - Megiddo' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '23' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'From the Bas-relief of the prisoners which Ammon-Ra / delivers to Senischah, on the S part of the Great / Hypostyle Hall, near the gate of the Bubastites. / Karnac. 22nd June 1843. / G. Ll. / These Cartouches were first mentioned by Champollion le Jeune.' (pencil note)

Thebes, Ramesseum, upper part of Ramesses II offering

Thebes, upper part of Ramesses II offering, detail of an unidentified scene, perhaps from one of the Osiride pillars in the Second Court or a column in the Hypostyle in the Ramesseum:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 25 x 35 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Ramases the great. / <<cartouches of Ramesses II>> / Memnonium. / 26th Aug. 1843.' (pencil)
  • [on mount] '24' (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, Hypostyle, Exterior, North side, Sethos I mounting his chariot

Seti I mounting his chariot whilst dragging three captive Hittites, detail from a battle scene, , on the North side of the exterior wall of the Hypostyle in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 35 x 25 cm
  • [on mount] 'Menephthah 1st or Osirei Great Hypostile, Karnac.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '26' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'Menephthah 1st or Osirei. / From a large Bas-relief on the exterior of the Northern / wall of the Great Hypostyle. Karnac. / 14th June 1843. / G Lloyd.' (pencil note)

Medinet Habu, Great Temple, exterior wall, outer face, North side, Ramesses III hunting lions

Ramesses III in chariot hunting lions, detail from the battle against the sea-peoples, from a scene on the North side of the outer face of the exterior wall of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 35 x 24.9 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Medinet Abu. / 31st Aug. 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '27' (pencil note)

Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), harp with uppermost terminal decorated with the head of a king

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)

Karnak, papyrus-clump

Papyrus-clump, from an unidentified Ptolemaic temple scene at Karnak:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 35 x 24.9 cm
  • [on mount] '30' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'Lambris of Lotus Flowers. / From the walls of a small temple near the Pylon / to the North. Karnac. / This ornament is of the Ptolemaic Period. / 14th June 1843. / G Ll.' (pencil note)
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