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Horeau MSS 20.7
Title
Hector Horeau Watercolour - Valley of the Kings
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1 watercolour
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(1801-1872)
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Scope and content
Sarcophagus of Ay from his tomb (KV 23, Valley of the Kings), with separate renderings of his cartouches:
- watercolour
- mounted
- [on recto, top right corner] 'les ornements [ ] aux montants [ ] aile de genie'. (pencil note)
- [on recto, lower left side] 'Vallée de l'ouest Sarcophage du Tombeau de Skai a 0,04c p. mt'. (pencil note)
- [on mount, verso] 'Peintures des Tombeaux de la Vallée des Reines'. (ink note)
- 18.5 by 13.4 cm
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Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
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Publication note
- Published online in 2010 on the Griffith Institute website: 'Watercolours of Egypt made by Hector Horeau in 1838, now in the Archive of the Griffith Institute' (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4horeau_intro.html).
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Note
- TopBib i2.551A.