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• Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
• Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
• Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
• Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
• Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
• First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

Watercolour in its original mount, showing the temples on Philae Island, viewed from the north-west.

• The watercolour is captioned on the mount, once below the watercolour and again on the verso. The captions are both the same but are written in two different hands: "Philæ from the North."
• Although the watercolour is not signed, it was most certainly painted by Amelia A. B. Edwards.

Watercolour in its original mount, the temples on Philae Island, viewed from the south. Although the watercolour is not signed or annotated, it was most certainly painted by Amelia A. B. Edwards.

Sketch missing.

• [on mount] 'Small Egyptian Scraps,, 1874. T'ih: A Priest & noble of Memphis. IVth Dynasty.' (ink note)

Cover bound in green leather.

• [on label] 'G/N28 Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum, Oxford' (printed)

Back cover with green leather binding.

Pencil drawing of the headdress of a king:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Edfoo' (pencil note)
• [Headdress of a King:. North wall Great Hall. Temple of Edfoo.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Edfoo. Ma' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'King marking out the foundations of a Temple. South wall. Great Hall. Edfoo.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of goddess:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Goddess represented on S wall of small temple of Hathor Ihsambool' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Goddess with headdress supposed to represent a sheaf of flax. S. wall. Smaller Temple. Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Ramesses II:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Head of last colossus on right interior of Large Temple' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Rameses II. Head of Osiride Caryatid Great Hall - Large Temple. Aboo Simbel.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Ramesses II:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Portrait of Rameses II. Karnac.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'On the wall of a corridor leading to the Sanctuary - Karnak.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Ramesses II:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Abydos. (funeral scene) Rameses as Kings son worshipping Seti borne on throne as Gods' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Ramses II. as Prince. On the S wall of vaulted chamber to left of Great Hall - Abydos.' (pencil note)

Pencil sketch of Ramesses II at Beit el-Wali:

• mounted
• [on sketch] 'Bayt el Whally' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Rameses II as prince, combatting. To right of entrance, East wall. Bayt el Wely.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of sistrum at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Bas relief of Sistrum. Temple of Hathor Aboo Simbel.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Rameses II W. Wall. Library - Aboo Simbel.'

Pencil drawing of Horus from Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Ensign dividing two large pictures on West wall of painted Chamber' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Ensign of Horus Araëris - library - Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of detail of cornice at Abu Simbel:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Cornice of library adjoining Gt Temple. Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of resurrection of Osiris at Philae:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Resurrection of Osiris - Osiris chamber. Philae' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of shrine of legs of Osiris:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Shrine of legs of Osiris: Osiris Chamber - Philae' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of shrine of arm of Osiris:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Shrine of arm of Osiris: Osiris chamber - Philae.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of djed at Philae:

• mounted
• [on mount] Shrine of Head of Osiris - Osiris Chamber - Philae' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of king and queen embracing:

• Mounted
• [on sketch] 'King + Queen embracing. Temple of Amada. Nubia' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'To left of entrance. East wall Temple of Amada. Nubia.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of scarab beetle at the Temple of Dendur:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Dendoor' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Scarabæus over S. door + Lotus ornament. Dendoor.' (pencil note)

Pencil drawing of Taurt at Gebel el-Silsila:

• mounted
• [on drawing] 'Silsilis.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] ' Goddess Ta-urt: Chapel of the Ramessides: Silsilis. West bank.' (pencil note)