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Journal 3

Journal covering the period from 26 February to 6 March 1876.
Black cover, 17.8 x 11.5 x 0.8 cm, 22 pages.

Jenny Lane Collection

  • J. Lane MSS
  • Collectie
  • c. 1876-1887
  • J. Lane MSS 1-3: Journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A. B. Edwards, describing in detail their various trips including the 1873-1874 journey through France and Italy, crossing from Brindisi to Alexandria on the Simla, thence up the Nile to Dendara, Karnak, Luxor, Aswan, Philae and Abu Simbel, and the return journey via Port Said, through Lebanon to Damascus, Baalbek and Beirut, Constantinople, Athens, and the Rhine. They contain vivid descriptions of the landscape, weather and peoples, and anecdotes and observations of fellow travellers and places visited. They cover the period from 4 September 1873 to 6 March 1876. 286 pages in three volumes, calf, worn, 8vo.
  • J. Lane MSS 4: Photograph album put together following Miss Lane's two trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1873 and 1876.
  • J. Lane MSS 5: Collection of antiquities and miscellanea collected by Miss Lane during her trips.
  • J. Lane MSS 6: Three framed portraits (Jane Collins, née Jane Lane, George Collins [first husband], and George Lane [father]).
  • J. Lane MSS 7: Photocopy of marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879).
  • J. Lane MSS 8: Related documentation (three letters to the Martin family and two papers) by Brenda Moon.

Lane, Jenny

Cover

-Original cloth-binding re-backed retaining original half roan spine
-33 x 44 cm
-Traces of a (now lost) album title-plate, which measured 10.5 x 6 cm, on exterior of front cover board.

Abu Tufla, Tarfu tree (tamarisk)

A Tarfu tree (tamarisk) at Abu Tufla:
-watercolour
-mounted
-35.3 x 25.9 cm
-[on mount] Tarfu Mee near the Well at Abu Tufla.' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '4' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Tarfu Tree near the Well at Abu Tuflä / between Salahiah and Bir Abu ruk / 31st Jan. 1st Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)

Cairo, Mausoleum of Amir Tankizbugha in the Northern Cemetery

Mausoleum of Amir Tankizbugha in the Northern Cemetery of Cairo:
-watercolour
-mounted
-35.2 x 25.7 cm
-[on recto of watercolour] 'النجعاوية' {= Al-Tanjizawia} (ink note)
-[on mount] 'The Mosque Etingozamēa to the E. of the Citadel - Cairo.' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '9' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'The Mosque Etingezawēa to the E. of the Citadel / Cairo / 13th Dec 1842.' (pencil note)

Giza, Pyramids of Khafra [Khephren] and Menkaure with the Tomb of Khentkaus in the foreground

Giza, the Pyramids of Khafra [Khephren] and Menkaure with the Tomb of Khentkaus in the foreground:
-watercolour
-mounted
-35.3 x 25.7 cm
-[on mount] 'The second & third Pyramids of Gizeh. Sunrise. / The building in the centre is an old Tomb / Sketch taken from the Well S of the great Pyramid.' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '10' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'The second and third Pyramids of Gizeh. / Sunrise. 2 Dec. 1842. The building in the centre is an old Tomb. / Sketch taken from the Well S. of the Great Pyramid, near / our tent.' (pencil note)

Egypt, women collecting water from the Nile

Women collecting water from the Nile, on the bank behind and above are domestic buildings including a pigeon tower, unidentified site in Egypt:
-watercolour
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 026
-16.9 x 24.7 cm
-[on recto of watercolour] 'Study' (pencil note)
-[on mount] encircled '25' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] '24th April 1843.' (pencil note)

Bilbeis, man with recumbent camel

A man with recumbent camel at Bilbeis:
-watercolour
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 029 and Lloyd MSS 030
-17.4 x 12.1 cm
-[on mount] encircled '31' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Belbeis. / 22 Jan. 1843.' (pencil note)

Bitter Lakes area, tomb of Sheikh Anedid

Tomb of Sheikh Anedid in the Bitter Lakes area:
-watercolour
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 034
-17.4 x 12.1 cm
-[on watercolour] 'Scheich Anedid 30th Janry. 1843' (ink note)
-[on mount] encircled '35' (pencil note)

Abu Zaabal, a common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)

A common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) (probably this) at Abu Zaabal:
-watercolour
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 037 and Lloyd MSS 038
-17.5 x 12.2 cm
-[on watercolour] 'Abu Zaable. 11th Janry 1843' (ink)
-[on mount] '36' (pencil note)

Egypt, view of a wadi

View of a wadi at an unidentified site in Egypt:
-watercolour
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 036 and Lloyd MSS 038
-17.5 x 12.1 cm
-[on mount] 'Sketch for an Effect.' (ink note)
-[on mount] '37' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Sketch for an Effect. / Jan. 1842.' (pencil note)

Abu Zaabal, three studies of foxes

Three studies of foxes at Abu Zaabal. Top scene: fox, presumably dead, lying on the ground; middle scene: dead fox, strung-up by back-legs; bottom scene: a mountainous desert scene with two foxes:
-watercolours
-mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 040 and Lloyd MSS 042
-12.2 x 17.5 cm
-[on recto of watercolour] 'Abu Zaabel.' (pencil note)
-[on watercolour/mount] '41' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] '[Abu Zaabel. 14th Jan: 1843.]' (pencil note)

Karnak, Temple of Khonsu, view from the roof looking East towards the Theban Hills

View from the roof of the Temple of Khonsu at Karnak, looking East towards the Theban Hills, with an indication to the 'Colossi of Memnon':
-watercolour
-mounted
-35.5 x 26 cm
-[on mount] 'The Mountains of Eurna / from the platform of the Temple of Khons, Karnac.' (ink note)
-[on mount] '48' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'The Mountains of Gurna / From the platform of the Pronaos of the Temple of Khons. / Karnac 21st May 1843.' (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, view of the precinct from the East

View of the precinct of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak from the East; in the foreground are two young shepherds with sheep or goats:
-watercolour
-mounted
-35 x 24.9 cm
-[on mount] 'Ruins of Karnac from the E pylon.' (ink note)
-[on mount] '53' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Ruins of Karnac, from the E. pylon. / 26th June 1843.' (pencil note)

Karnak, a young boy seated on the ground beneath two date palms

A young boy seated on the ground beneath two date palms, in the village near the Eastern Pylons of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
-watercolour
-mounted
-26 x 35.5 cm
-[on mount] 'Date Trees from the Grove at the small Village / near the Eastern Pylon.' (ink note)
-[on mount] '56' (pencil note)
-[on verso of watercolour] 'Date trees, from the Grove at the / small village near the Eastern Pylon. / 27th June 1843.' (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, Festival Temple (Akhmenu), unidentified scene, Thutmosis III purifying ithyphallic Amun-Re with water

Thutmosis III, accompanied by his ka, purifying ithyphallic Amun-Re with water, scene from the Festival Temple (Akhmenu) in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak (specific scene not identified):
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35.5 x 26 cm
-[on mount] 'Thothmes 3d from the Palace Karnac' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '7' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'Thothmes 3rd / From a bas relief in the private apartments of the Palace / of Thothmes 3rd. Karnac 5th July 1843.' (pencil note)

Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), three seated female musicians

Three female musicians seated on the ground, one playing the double-pipe and the other two clapping, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
-pencil drawing
-mounted
-35 x 24.9 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 2nd Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '25' (pencil note)
-[on verso of drawing] 'These women are under the others which I have copied / playing on the Harp, the double pipe, the lute and / the onestringed mandolin. Their faces have been / I believe also purposely defaced, and whoever traced / those above has used sealing wax to fasten the / paper.' (pencil note)

Thebes, Valley of the Queens

View of the Valley of the Queens at Thebes:
-pencil sketch
-mounted
-35 x 24.9 cm
-[on recto of sketch] 'Valley of the Tombs of the Queens. Thebes. / 24th July 1843.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] 'Valley of the Tombs of the Queens - Babel El Hadgee Acmet.' (pencil note)
-[on mount] '33' (pencil note)
-[on verso of sketch] 'Valley of the / Tombs of the Queens. / Bab El Hadgee Achmet. / 24th July 1843.' (pencil note)

Karnak, Great Temple of Amun, the Obelisks of Tuthmosis I and Hatshepsut

The standing Obelisks of Tuthmosis I and Hatshepsut, viewed from the west, with the ruins of the 4th Pylon between them, in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
-unfinished pencil drawing
-mounted
-35.5 x 25.9 cm
-[on recto of drawing] 'Obelisks at Karnac. 11 June 1843'. (pencil note)
-[on mount] '36' (pencil note)

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