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Hector Horeau Watercolour - Aswan

View of the Nile and nearby buildings at Aswan:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'ASSOUAN 5 [ ]'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue d'Assouan (Moyenne Egypte.)'. (pencil note)
  • 17.7 by 12.5 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Thebes

Barque with a naos shrine in the centre, and possibly a barque sphinx at the bow. Possibly from a tomb scene:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left corner] 'Thebes'. (pencil note)
  • 18 by 7.7 cm

John Frederick Dewey Collection

  • Dewey MSS
  • Collection
  • c. 1980s - 2000s

C. 10,500 colour slides (35mm) mostly of Egypt (temples, tombs and other ancient monuments), but also of different countries in the Middle East (Syria, Persia, Turkey, etc.) as well as the Far East. They are cross-referenced with an extensive card index and cover a period from the early 1980s until the early 2000s. They consist of images from virtually every site in the Egyptian Delta region and the Nile Valley.

Dewey, John Frederick

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Thebes

Barque with three men standing inside and wedjat eyes painted on the exterior, possibly from a tomb scene:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left corner] 'Thebes'. (pencil note)
  • 18 by 6.3 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Beni Hasan

Boats from Beni Hasan tomb relief scenes. On the upper half is a boat with several rowers and men at the bow steering, followed by another boat with a larger standing figure at the bow; the second boat on the right within the fourth register at (6) of the tomb of Khnumhotep (Tomb 3, Beni Hasan). The lower left side sketch shows the stern of a boat found on the left within the fifth register at (12) of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan), the lower right side sketch is a detailed boat from the right side within the sixth register at (15) also of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top right] 'grand prêtre'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, centre] 'culottes et robes blanches (probablement des pretres)', 'barque du defunt'. (pencil notes)
  • [on recto, bottom left] 'il y a parfois 2 gouvernails', 'corps mort'. (pencil notes)
  • [on recto, bottom right] 'cette surface listé en jaune ressemble à une bandiere (drapeau) ou rideau pr cacher les femmes lorsqu'elles ont besoin d'etre seule'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'BENI HASSAN'. (pencil note)
  • 21.6 by 15.7 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Beni Hasan

Boat with rows of men with oars, middle boat from a larger relief scene on the fifth register at (12) of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan). On the upper corners of the watercolour are small separate sketches of the details of shields on the cabin from the boat at the right side:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top] 'la reine dans la barque avec 1 ou 2 femmes' and 'qu'est ce que cela? ne serait ce pas une [ ] pour [ ] du maitre de la barque qui est assis au dessous? ou pr [ ] la voile?'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'chaque marin a un petit cotte ou tablier blanc dans certaines barques on voit quelquefois les marins assis les extremités de la barque sont blanches'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'BENI HASSAN'. (pencil note)
  • 21.6 by 17.1 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Wadi Halfa

View of the second cataract at Wadi Halfa:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'R.E. Nubie Ouady Halfa entrée de la 2e cataracte ile de Muogis 15 mai 1838'. (ink note)
  • [on mount] 'Ouady Halfa, Entrée de la 2e Cataracte'. (pencil note)
  • 25.1 by 16.3 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Wadi Halfa

View of the second cataract at Wadi Halfa, with seated figures in the foreground:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'Nubie.R.O. Vue de la 2e cataracte prise du rocher des visiteurs à noms) en regardt le sud. 14 mai 1838'. (ink note)
  • [on mount] 'Mr Horeau, arrivé à la 2e Cataracte, inscrit son nom sur un rocher'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Haute-Egypte La 2e Cataracte, limite de l'Exploration de M. H. Horeau'. (ink note)
  • 25.2 by 17.2 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Abu Simbel

Plan and detailed section of the small temple at Abu Simbel, including a separate drawing at the top left of the statue of the goddess Hathor in bovine form protecting the king between two Hathor-headed pillars (41):

  • watercolour
  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto] 'PLAN ET COUPE DU TEMPLE D'HATOR A IBSAMBOUL'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'NUBIE.R.E', '1838 18 mai'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Temple de Vénus Athor à Ibsamboul'. (ink note)
  • 24.5 by 34 cm

Hector Horeau Drawing - el-Sebua

Drawings of the cartouches of Ramesses II from the New Kingdom temple at el-Sebua (numbered 2 and 3):

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, left side] '1. les figures de la cour pareilles à celles de Ghirché l'embrasemr de porte à droite est plus refouillé pour l'épaisseur de la porte'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, right side] '4. les colosses à droite et à gauche de la porte sont à terre ils sont figurés debout dans la vue pour donner plus d'intéret'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] '3. Plan et détails'. (ink note)
  • 31.1 by 7 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - el-Sebua

Plan of the New Kingdom temple at el-Sebua:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left] 'Plan du temple de Hemi-speos à ouadi-Asseboua (vallée des lions)'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'NUBIE.R.O '28 mai'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] '3. Plan et détails'. (ink note)
  • 31.1 by 8.7 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - el-Dakka

On the top of the page is a sketch of the figure of a goddess or a queen from a column, and on the lower half of the page is a view of the pronaos and pylon of the temple at el-Dakka:

  • pencil sketch (top page)
  • watercolour (bottom page)
  • mounted
  • [on mount, verso] 'Vue, Plan et Détails du Temple de Dakkeh'. (ink note)
  • 9.2 by 23.4 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Karnak

View of the forecourt area of the temple of Khonsu within the Karnak temple complex, including a representation of the Pylon at (20)-(21) and renderings of flags and 5 short columns of hieroglyphs:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] 'THÈBES. Bas relief d'un Pylone dans la cour du temple de Kons'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom right edge] '2'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'KARNAC' (ink note)
  • 15.7 by 23.8 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Ramesseum

Bust of colossus of Ramesses II originally from the 2nd southern court of the Ramesseum, now in the British Museum (EA 19):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'au British museum'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] '[ ] British [ ]'. (ink note)
  • 7.5 by 10.6 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Thebes?

Serekh with Horus-name of Ramesses II:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top right edge] 'noir p. l'épervier [ ]'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'de Karnac salle hypostyle'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Peintures des Tombeaux de la Vallée des Reines'. (ink note)
  • 9.1 by 20 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Valley of the Kings

Section plan of the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11, Valley of the Kings):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] '2. Tombeau de Rhamses Meiamoun Thebes a 25 p. m'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Coupe et Plan du Tombeau de Rhamsès Meïamoun. Echelle à 0,0025 p.M'. (ink note)
  • 59.3 by 15 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Armant

View of the temple of Montu in Armant:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'herment'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'herment'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] '2. Petit temple ou Mammisi d'Herment'. (ink note)
  • 34.2 by 24.6 cm
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