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Hector Horeau Watercolour - Giza

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Giza

View of the Great pyramid at Giza:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'La Grande Pyramide'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] '2. Pyramides de Gyzeh'. (ink note)
  • 17.6 by 12.5 cm
Hector Horeau Watercolour - Giza

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Giza

An idealised view of Giza, with the Sphinx, valley temple, and the Great Pyramid visible in the distance:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Monument à élever sur la grande pyramide'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] '3. Monument à élever sur la grande pyramide'. (ink note)
  • 17.5 by 12.4 cm
Cover

Cover

Cover of the Lane presentation album.

  • 26.3 x 20 cm
  • Embossed gold note on spine exterior reads: 'Egypt C.W. Lane'.
Enclosure 2

Enclosure 2

Handwritten notes recording contacts at various institutions whom the former owners of the album may have consulted in relation to the album's contents.

  • 14 x 9 cm
  • [annotation]: 'See Mr Gibb Smith / V&A. / Capt. Hollis Smith / of Parker Galleries / suggested I bring the / book & you'd introduce / me to the right person / John Halton(?) in Library, / or Print Room -'
Head of Great Sphinx, Giza

Head of Great Sphinx, Giza

Head of the Great Sphinx at Giza, with one man standing below to the right side of the Sphinx's head while another man climbs towards its chin:

  • pencil, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 13.4 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top right corner] 'The Great Sphinx.' (pencil note)
Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo

Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo

View of the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo showing the courtyard with the ablution fountain:

  • pencil, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Mosque of Ibu Too'loo'n, vulgarly called Ga'me' Teyloo'n — a, dome over the tank — b, the great minaret — / c, minaret of a mosque at the eastern angle of the Ckal'' at el-Kebsh — / Erected A H 263 AD 876-7' (pencil note)
Limestone colossus of Ramesses II, Mit Rahina

Limestone colossus of Ramesses II, Mit Rahina

The fallen colossal limestone statue of Ramesses II ('Abû el-Ḥol'), from the south gate of the Ptah enclosure at Mit Rahina:

  • black ink, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Colossal figure at Memphis' (pencil note)
Temple wall scene, tribute, Beit el-Wali

Temple wall scene, tribute, Beit el-Wali

Part of a temple wall scene from the forecourt of the Beit el-Wali temple at Kalabsha, two registers of Nubians, including women and children, bringing tribute with animals, [to Ramesses II]:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture on the left side-wall of the court before the rock-temple of Ckala'b'sheh.' (pencil note)
Tomb wall scene, gazelle suckling fawn, Giza

Tomb wall scene, gazelle suckling fawn, Giza

Tomb wall scene, a gazelle suckling a fawn:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] illegible pencil note
  • Detail from a wall scene, gazelle suckling calf, probably from scenes of bringing fowl and young animals in boxes (including hare, hedgehog, gazelles, and gazelle and young, from room I in the tomb of Nebemakhet [LG 86], son of Khephren, in the Central Field at Giza.
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