Item Horeau MSS 24.1 - Hector Horeau Watercolour - Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens

1 watercolour

One large relief scene from the tomb of Rameses-Mentuhirkhopshef (KV 19, Valley of the Kings) showing the upper body of the king in an adoring pose making an offering of a foreleg at (2) 7 [text before deceased possibly from (3) 7]. Beneath this drawing are three smaller scenes: a vase, possibly from a relief scene found in a tomb from the Valley of the Queens (bottom left); a head of Queen Tyti from (2) 3 from her tomb (QV 52, Valley of the Queens) (centre); and the upper body of a queen, possibly from a relief scene found in a tomb from the Valley of the Queens (bottom right):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] '1-2-3 Peintures des tombeaux Vallée des Reines'. (ink note)
• 16.4 by 28.7 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.

• 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).

• TopBib i2.546A (upper image).
• TopBib i2.757A (lower central image).