- E. W. Lane MSS 8.00
- Item
- c. 1825-1876
Parte de Edward William Lane Collection
Cover of the Lane presentation album.
- 26.3 x 20 cm
- Embossed gold note on spine exterior reads: 'Egypt C.W. Lane'.
Parte de Edward William Lane Collection
Cover of the Lane presentation album.
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Note with annotations in two different hands referencing the album's contents and previous ownership.
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Handwritten note regarding Mrs May C Buckton (see Lane MSS 8.0a), who was one of the former owners of the album.
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Handwritten notes recording contacts at various institutions whom the former owners of the album may have consulted in relation to the album's contents.
Photograph - portrait bust of E. W. Lane
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Photograph of the portrait bust of Edward William Lane now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Man walking ahead of another man on horseback
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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.
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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
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General view of the Egyptian village of Rasheed (Rosetta) with a mosque in the centre and the Nile beyond.
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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.
Courtyard, Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, Cairo
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View of the courtyard of the mosque of Amr ibn al-As Mosque in Cairo, viewed from within the colonnades lining the courtyard:
Colonnade, Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, Cairo
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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:
Southern Cemetery at Cairo, with funeral procession
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View of a funeral procession at the southern cemetery of Cairo. The cemetery is also known as Qarafa:
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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:
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View of the sunrise (or sunset) at the Giza pyramid field:
Cairo Citadel Aqueduct, Fumm al-Khalig water intake tower
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View of the aqueduct at the Cairo citadel and the Fumm al-Khalig water intake tower:
Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo
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View of the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo showing the courtyard with the ablution fountain:
Limestone colossus of Ramesses II, Mit Rahina
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The fallen colossal limestone statue of Ramesses II ('Abû el-Ḥol'), from the south gate of the Ptah enclosure at Mit Rahina:
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View of the pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara:
Temple wall scene with Seti I in a chariot, Karnak
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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:
Tomb wall scene, priest with offerings before man and wife, probably TT 59
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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:
Temple wall scene, tribute, Beit el-Wali
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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]:
Tomb wall scene, hoeing and ploughing, El Kab
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Tomb wall scene, figures hoeing and ploughing:
Tomb wall scene, harvesting, El Kab
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Tomb wall scene, figures harvesting:
Tomb wall scene, treading and winnowing grain, El Kab
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Tomb wall scene, figures treading and winnowing grain:
Tomb wall scene, picking and treading grapes, El Kab
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Tomb wall scene, figures picking and treading grapes:
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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
Tomb wall scene, female musicians, tomb of Amenhotep-si-si, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
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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:
Tomb wall scene, gazelle suckling fawn, Giza
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Tomb wall scene, a gazelle suckling a fawn: