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)
Two albums containing approximately 460 black and white photographs taken by various members of the IFAO team during excavations at Deir el-Medîna during the 1920s and 30s. Photographs interspersed with some notes and drawings.
A scene with four women inside a room within a dwelling or perhaps a coffee shop(?), probably in Cairo or elsewhere in Egypt. The woman on the left wears a white and red striped garment and white turban with her back to the artist and holds a small teacup in her right hand, offering it to one of the other women. Background right, a woman wearing a blue, red and red checked jilbab with a black veil over a blue garment, greeted at the door by a servant girl wearing a blue garment and head covering with her back to the artist Foreground right, a woman wearing a green garment and white scarf is seated on a red floor cushion
View showing the Bab al-Nasr gate, the mosque of al-Hakim, and part of the city walls in Cairo. Although the caption mentions the Bab al-Futuh gate, it is not recorded in this watercolour.
pencil, monochrome watercolour
mounted
17.4 x 10.1 cm
[Lane's caption on verso of album page, at top left corner] 'The Ba'b en-Nasr & Ba'b el Footon' being two of the principal gates of Musr el(?) ~~xxxxxx xxxxxx xx xx ~~ : - a the former - b the latter. c c the two / minarets of the ruined mosque of El-Wha'kim. / Erected A H. 480 - A.D 1087-8.' (pencil note)
View of the courtyard of the mosque of Amr ibn al-As Mosque in Cairo, viewed from within the colonnades lining the courtyard:
black ink, monochrome watercolour
mounted
17.6 x 10.1 cm
[Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Interior view of the Mosque of 'Amir, or Musr 'Alee'ckah. / Erected in the middle of the seventh century - the 1st mosque built in Egypt.' (pencil note)
Tomb wall scene, female musicians, from the hallway of tomb Amenhotep-si-se (TT75), Sheikh Abu el-Qurna. The musicians play a harp, lute, double-pipe, a girl dancing, lyre and a tambourine:
pencil drawing
mounted
17.7 x 10 cm
[Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Female musicians & dancers — from the paintings at a tomb in the Hill of the shey'kh Abd El-Ckoor'n[eh]'.' (pencil note, 'eh' of 'Ckoor'neh' is cut off, presumably when the mounted drawings were bound)
