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Cover of the Lane presentation album.

• 26.3 x 20 cm
• Embossed gold note on spine exterior reads: 'Egypt C.W. Lane'.

Note with annotations in two different hands referencing the album's contents and previous ownership.

• 12.4 x 10 cm
  • Upper annotation, later than the following note
    • blue ink, ballpoint
    • [Note] 'Pictures by C W Lane Edward Lane? / or Richard Ladd? / some pictures of his in Tate'
  • Lower annotation, earlier than the preceding note
    • Black or dark blue ink
    • 'Passed on with much / pleasure to Kitten and / Rosemary from May C / Buckton, knowing the / book will have such a / good home'

Handwritten note regarding Mrs May C Buckton (see Lane MSS 8.0a), who was one of the former owners of the album.

• blue ink, ballpoint
• 14 x 9 cm
• [annotation] 'Mrs May C Buckton / died 1950ish age 100 yrs / widow of Bishop / Buckton, sometime / Bishop of Gibraltar / (or Malta?)'

Handwritten notes recording contacts at various institutions whom the former owners of the album may have consulted in relation to the album's contents.

• 14 x 9 cm
• [annotation]: 'See Mr Gibb Smith / V&A. / Capt. Hollis Smith / of Parker Galleries / suggested I bring the / book & you'd introduce / me to the right person / John Halton(?) in Library, / or Print Room -'

Photograph of the portrait bust of Edward William Lane now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

• Black and white (sepia) photographic print
• Mounted with gilded frame and borders
• 15.2 x 12.5 cm

Street scene, probably in Cairo, with a man wearing a blue garment and a white turban, walking and holding aloft a long stick in his right hand, preceding another man wearing a green garment and red turban riding a horse.

• watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10.1 cm
• no annotations

A scene with four women inside a room within a dwelling or perhaps a coffee shop(?), probably in Cairo or elsewhere in Egypt.
The woman on the left wears a white and red striped garment and white turban with her back to the artist and holds a small teacup in her right hand, offering it to one of the other women.
Background right, a woman wearing a blue, red and red checked jilbab with a black veil over a blue garment, greeted at the door by a servant girl wearing a blue garment and head covering with her back to the artist
Foreground right, a woman wearing a green garment and white scarf is seated on a red floor cushion

• watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10.1 cm
• no annotations

General view of the Egyptian village of Rasheed (Rosetta) with a mosque in the centre and the Nile beyond.

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.6 x 9.7 cm
• [Lane's annotation on verso of album page, at top left corner]: 'The Southern Entrance to Rasheed, or Rosetta.' (pencil note)

View showing the Bab al-Nasr gate, the mosque of al-Hakim, and part of the city walls in Cairo. Although the caption mentions the Bab al-Futuh gate, it is not recorded in this watercolour.

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.4 x 10.1 cm
• [Lane's caption on verso of album page, at top left corner] 'The Ba'b en-Nasr & Ba'b el Footon' being two of the principal gates of Musr el(?) ~~xxxxxx xxxxxx xx xx ~~ : - a the former - b the latter. c c the two / minarets of the ruined mosque of El-Wha'kim. / Erected A H. 480 - A.D 1087-8.' (pencil note)

View of the courtyard of the mosque of Amr ibn al-As Mosque in Cairo, viewed from within the colonnades lining the courtyard:

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.6 x 10.1 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Interior view of the Mosque of 'Amir, or Musr 'Alee'ckah. / Erected in the middle of the seventh century - the 1st mosque built in Egypt.' (pencil note)

View of the colonnade and minbar in the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in Cairo, with a figure leaning against a column in the foreground and two men in conversation at the far end of the colonnade:

• pencil, black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.5 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Place of Prayer in the Mosque of 'Amir.' (pencil note)

View of a funeral procession at the southern cemetery of Cairo. The cemetery is also known as Qarafa:

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.5 x 10 cm
  [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Southern Cemetery of Musr, called El-Ckara'feh - a, the tomb of the Im'am Es'h Sha'fe'ee' (pencil note)

Head of the Great Sphinx at Giza, with one man standing below to the right side of the Sphinx's head while another man climbs towards its chin:

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 13.4 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top right corner] 'The Great Sphinx.' (pencil note)

View of the sunrise (or sunset) at the Giza pyramid field:

• monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 9.9 cm
• no annotations

View of the aqueduct at the Cairo citadel and the Fumm al-Khalig water intake tower:

• pencil, black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Aqueduct of Musr — a, the building in which are the water-works — b, entrance of the Canal of Musr — / c, part of the bridge of the Canal — d, part of Mount Moockut'tum.' (pencil note)

View of the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo showing the courtyard with the ablution fountain:

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Mosque of Ibu Too'loo'n, vulgarly called Ga'me' Teyloo'n — a, dome over the tank — b, the great minaret — / c, minaret of a mosque at the eastern angle of the Ckal'' at el-Kebsh — / Erected A H 263 AD 876-7' (pencil note)

The fallen colossal limestone statue of Ramesses II ('Abû el-Ḥol'), from the south gate of the Ptah enclosure at Mit Rahina:

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.6 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Colossal figure at Memphis' (pencil note)

View of the pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara:

• pencil, black ink (probably), monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Pyramid of Hawa'rah — a, Small canal — b Remains of columns & architraves.' (pencil note)

Drawing of a detail from a battle scene, Seti I in a chariot charging Libyans on the battlefield, on the north exterior wall of the hypostyle hall in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

• black ink drawing
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10.2 cm
• Below the drawing are two small cartouches of the king (in ink)
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture at Kar'nak' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, upper register, sem priest with offerings before Qen and wife Meryt, with monkey eating dates under chair, followed by two rows of seated men and women, probably TT 59, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Painting in a tomb in the Hill of the shey'kh 'Abd El-Ckoor'neh' (pencil note)

Part of a temple wall scene from the forecourt of the Beit el-Wali temple at Kalabsha, two registers of Nubians, including women and children, bringing tribute with animals, [to Ramesses II]:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture on the left side-wall of the court before the rock-temple of Ckala'b'sheh.' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, figures hoeing and ploughing:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.8 x 9.9 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Ploughing & Sowing.' (pencil note)
• Detail from agricultural scenes, two groups of men hoeing and men with oxen ploughing (first group), west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures harvesting:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.6 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Reaping.' (pencil note)
• Detail from agricultural scenes, cutting corn with man at front drinking water from a bottle, west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures treading and winnowing grain:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Treading out the corn, & Winnowing.' (pencil note)
• Detail from agricultural scenes, oxen threshing corn and men winnowing, west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures picking and treading grapes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.6 x 10.1 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Vintage.' (pencil note)
• Detail from scene, vintage scenes, picking and treading grapes, from the upper part of the west wall of the hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Temple wall scenes from the hypostyle hall in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak
Left scene, Seti I spears Libyan chief on the battlefield, north exterior wall
Right scene, Ramesses II binding Syrian captives, south exterior wall

• Two pencil drawings
• Drawings are mounted side-by-side
• 17.7 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Kar'nak' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, female musicians, from the hallway of tomb Amenhotep-si-se (TT75), Sheikh Abu el-Qurna. The musicians play a harp, lute, double-pipe, a girl dancing, lyre and a tambourine:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Female musicians & dancers — from the paintings at a tomb in the Hill of the shey'kh Abd El-Ckoor'n[eh]'.' (pencil note, 'eh' of 'Ckoor'neh' is cut off, presumably when the mounted drawings were bound)

Tomb wall scene, a gazelle suckling a fawn:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.6 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] illegible pencil note
• Detail from a wall scene, gazelle suckling calf, probably from scenes of bringing fowl and young animals in boxes (including hare, hedgehog, gazelles, and gazelle and young, from room I in the tomb of Nebemakhet [LG 86], son of Khephren, in the Central Field at Giza.