Item Horeau MSS 37.2 - Hector Horeau Watercolour - Abu Simbel

1 watercolour

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

Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.

• Published in Horeau, H. 1841. Panorama d'Égypte et de Nubie: voyage fait en 1838. Reduction du grand ouvrage in 2° par Arosa & Co. Cairo (OEB 141685), figs. on p. 33 [verso upper and verso lower middle].
• 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 vii.111; vii.116.