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Sudan. Between Second and Third Cataracts. Gama

View of walled town named Gama above the Second Cataract of the Nile in Sudan:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted on p. 6, together with Bonomi MSS 24.7 (lower)
  • 17.8 x 12.2 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Gama' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'walls of an ancient town' (pencil note)

Egypt. Village scene

Village scene of modern Egypt with different figures in front of house:

  • pencil sketch with ink (brown) marks on paper
  • loose
  • 28.7 x 19.5 cm

Partial note

Patrial note:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 13.6 x 18.9 cm
  • [text]:

'... least idea of the cost of
... [A]lexandria to London but
... to choose for me the
... if there is a choice' (ink note)

Exterior of a house

View of the exterior of a house perhaps in Egypt:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 18.4 x 11.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'a [?] / restauratio' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'I.G.' (ink note)

England. Essex. Harwich.

Views of Harwich in Essex, with detailed notes:

  • pencil and ink sketches on paper
  • loose
  • 35.1 x 24.5 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Landguard ft' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'R Orwell' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'you must shew this as a point in distance' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Languard Fort / 3 miles' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'grass fields' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'osses' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'grass slope' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'old houses' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '...hi]gher / ...]an down' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Martello towers / sunk in ditch level / with ground. / This is a much larger tower / than the common Martellos / would hold 3000 men' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '1 White Church' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '2 white Lighthouse' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '3 pretty library / 4 cement works / 5 Distant land / 6 flag staff / 7 panorama when I (underlined) was there / Camera (?)' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '8 promenade see the posts at the end / and a crane' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Harwich 10 years ago / monumental objects are all coeval slate | stone' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'another stone / White l[ight]house lower down on the / shore - or on a promenade / tis octagon I think' (ink note)

Woman being carried on a dandy

Woman being carried on a dandy, a sort of reclining chair fixed to a pole used in India and the Himalayas:

  • ink sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 23.7 x 18.7 cm
  • [on sketch] 'A Dandy. Mode of conveyance used / in the Himalayas.' (ink note)

Woman in dress from behind

Woman in dress from behind:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 25.4 x 42.5 cm
  • [on sketch] '[R].B / August (?) 17'
  • [on sketch] 'very good indeed' (pencil note)
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