Three studies of foxes at Abu Zaabal. Top scene: fox, presumably dead, lying on the ground; middle scene: dead fox, strung-up by back-legs; bottom scene: a mountainous desert scene with two foxes:
watercolours
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 040 and Lloyd MSS 042
12.2 x 17.5 cm
[on recto of watercolour] 'Abu Zaabel.' (pencil note)
[on watercolour/mount] '41' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] '[Abu Zaabel. 14th Jan: 1843.]' (pencil note)
Thutmosis III, accompanied by his ka, purifying ithyphallic Amun-Re with water, scene from the Festival Temple (Akhmenu) in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak (specific scene not identified):
pencil drawing
mounted
35.5 x 26 cm
[on mount] 'Thothmes 3d from the Palace Karnac' (pencil note)
[on mount] '7' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Thothmes 3rd / From a bas relief in the private apartments of the Palace / of Thothmes 3rd. Karnac 5th 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)
Two princesses holding fans, detail of a scene from room VIII on the second storey of the Tower of the Pavilion or East fortified gate of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Medinet Abu.' (pencil note)
The standing Obelisks of Tuthmosis I and Hatshepsut, viewed from the west, with the ruins of the 4th Pylon between them, in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
unfinished pencil drawing
mounted
35.5 x 25.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Obelisks at Karnac. 11 June 1843'. (pencil note)
Upper part of Shoshenq I and his son, the High priest of Amun, Iuput, from a scene showing the king receiving the heb-sed from Amun, on a pilaster in the Portico of the Bubastides, in Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 112
25.7 x 17.8 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Sheshonk. I.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Schischak and his Son. Great Hypostile Karnac.' (ink note)
[on mount] '53' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Schischak and his son. / From a bas-relief on the eastern side of the Northern / part of the Gate leading into the lower Western corner / of the Great Hypostyle, at Karnac. / 18th May 1843. / G Lloyd.' (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)
Memorial portrait of George Lloyd. Lloyd is portrayed reclining on a rug, wearing Arab clothing and holding the mouth-piece of a hookah-pipe in his right hand. The scene is set in a desert campsite, perhaps fictional, in Egypt, with a man standing with three camels in the background. The drawing this lithograph was based on was created by É. Prisse d'Avennes sometime between 1843 and 1848:
three colour tinted lithograph
loose item, perhaps not originally with the album but placed with it later
41.5 x 30.5 cm (print area of 36.1 x 27.7 cm)
[on recto of lithograph] 'Drawn on stone by Lemoine. [caption]
[on recto of lithograph] 'Portrait of the late George Lloyd Esqr' [caption]
[on recto of lithograph] 'James Madden_London' [caption]
[on verso of lithograph] '330' and enclosed ',1039' (pencil notes)
J. Lane MSS 1-3: Journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A. B. Edwards, describing in detail their various trips including the 1873-1874 journey through France and Italy, crossing from Brindisi to Alexandria on the Simla, thence up the Nile to Dendara, Karnak, Luxor, Aswan, Philae and Abu Simbel, and the return journey via Port Said, through Lebanon to Damascus, Baalbek and Beirut, Constantinople, Athens, and the Rhine. They contain vivid descriptions of the landscape, weather and peoples, and anecdotes and observations of fellow travellers and places visited. They cover the period from 4 September 1873 to 6 March 1876. 286 pages in three volumes, calf, worn, 8vo.
J. Lane MSS 4: Photograph album put together following Miss Lane's two trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1873 and 1876.
J. Lane MSS 5: Collection of antiquities and miscellanea collected by Miss Lane during her trips.
J. Lane MSS 6: Three framed portraits (Jane Collins, née Jane Lane, George Collins [first husband], and George Lane [father]).
J. Lane MSS 7: Photocopy of marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879).
J. Lane MSS 8: Related documentation (three letters to the Martin family and two papers) by Brenda Moon.
Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.
The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
An Egyptian team member carrying a tray containing the four 'candlesticks' (Carter 41a-d), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory. Each 'candlestick' is in the form of an anthropomorphic ankh with arms raised to either hold a bronze torch-cup or a small pottery cup.
