Item Horeau MSS 24.2 - Hector Horeau Watercolour - Valley of the Queens

1 watercolour

One large relief scene from a tomb within the Valley of the Queens, showing the upper body of a queen in an adoring pose. Beneath this is another smaller drawing of a queen in a similar pose, facing in the opposite direction. At the bottom right of the watercolour are small detailed drawings of the jewellery including part of the broad-collar:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, right side] 'Vallée des Reines boucle d'oreille collier elles ont des sandales'. (pencil notes)
• [on mount, verso] '1-2-3 Peintures des tombeaux Vallée des Reines'. (ink note)
• 16.2 by 28.8 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).