Various designs featuring female figures pouring oil into a lamp [left and right middle], profile of head of Egyptian(?) woman [right bottom] and dado(?) pattern [right top]:
pencil drawings and sketches on tracing paper mounted on paper
loose
26.4 x 23.1 cm
[on right top sketch] 'red lines / green orn' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / thick green lines on' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'TREASURY' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'LIFE / ASSURANCE' (pencil note)
Quatrain: -ink text on paper -loose -9.1 x 7.2 cm -[text] 'Merry(?) by(?) out thy say(?) / or why(?) offered but Sorrow / Thy joys thy was come but a day / Thy self a dream tomorrow'
Lithograph = James Burton, Excerpta hieroglyphica ([1825-1828]) (OEB 135978), plate IV; two hieroglyphic texts of Khnemibre, temp. Darius I, in the Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert (TopBib vii.335):
monochrome lithograph
loose
28.0 x 20.8 cm
[on lithograph] 'TABLETS IN THE COSSEIR [ROAD] / PLATE IV / No 1 / No 2' (printed notes, most almost totally faded)