Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection
Add to clipboard
Edwards, A. A. B. MSS
Collection
1856-1892
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’.
Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford
Albums
Add to clipboard
This group consists of four albums.
Edwards MSS 2.1
Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874
Edwards MSS 2.2
Watercolours and drawings made in the Dolomites, 1872
Edwards MSS 2.3
Ephemera, including some Egypt- and Dolomite-related material, 1872-1891
Edwards MSS 2.4
Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874
Egypt large album
Add to clipboard
Album containing drawings and watercolours made by Edwards when visiting Egypt in the winter of 1873-1874. Many of the preliminary sketches and watercolours in the album were used to illustrate her book A Thousand Miles Up the Nile , published in 1877.
Annotated on the first page: "Egyptian Scraps: 1874"
Containing 38 numbered pages with 107 mounted items
Watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Egypt, many with Edwards' annotated captions
Title page
Add to clipboard
Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:
mounted
[on mount] '"In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (in ink)
Arab tombs near Siout
Add to clipboard
Pencil sketch of marabouts near Siout
mounted
[on mount] 'Arab tombs near Siout' (ink note)
Figures
Add to clipboard
9 pencil sketches:
top left: man leaning on staff and woman with jar
top centre: man
top right: two women, one with a child
middle left: woman with jar
middle middle: man sitting
middle right: woman with child
bottom left: woman collecting water
bottom middle: man with pipe
bottom left: two men
Necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan:
mounted
[on mount] 'Necropolis of Abydus and Kom es Sultan' (ink note)
Coptic convent near Naqadah
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of Coptic convent near Naqadah:
mounted
[on mount] 'Coptic Convent - near Negada'
Waterwheel, Sîut
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:
mounted
[on sketch] 'Near Siout. Jany 1 1874' (painted note)
[on mount] 'Waterwheel. Siout' (ink note)
Ali the Nubian; Riskalli; Salame; Reïs Hassan; unidentified people
Add to clipboard
Nine pencil sketches:
top left: person with staff
top middle: man sitting and smoking
[on mount] 'Ali, the Nubian.' (ink note)
top right: veiled woman with jars
middle left: head of man
[on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
middle middle: group of men with boat near Manfalut
[on mount] 'Group of Natives (waiting for the Ferry) Manfaloot' (ink note)
middle right: Man sitting
[on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
bottom left: Reïs Hassan
[on mount] 'Reïs Hassan' (ink note)
bottom middle: man reclining on ?carved block
bottom right: man standing
[on mount] 'Salame' (ink note)
Dendarah landscape, human figures, Nerghaileh
Add to clipboard
Nine sketches:
top left: pencil sketch of donkey
top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
[on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
top right: pencil sketch of man wading
middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
[on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
[on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
[on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (ink note)
Hypostyle hall at Karnak
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of hypostyle hall at Karnak:
mounted
[on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnac. Looking East.'
Hypostyle hall at Karnak
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of Hypostyle Hall at Karnak:
mounted
[on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnak. Looking West.' (ink note)
Mountains above Thebes; mountains above Moramballa Marsh
Add to clipboard
Two images:
upper: watercolour of the mountains above Thebes
[on mount] 'Mountain range above Luxor. East Bank.' (ink note)
lower: clipping with engraving of landscape with caption: 'Mansanga, looking east from Moramballa Marsh'
[on clipping] Extraordinary resemblance to mountain range near Thebes, R. Bank. See sketch by ABE. S. East Africa. On the river [illegible], flowing out of Lake Nyassa, + into the Zambesi. This is near the mouth of the [illegible].' (pencil note)
The Damascus Gate; men riding donkeys; a shaduf; camels; and water bearers
Add to clipboard
Nine mounted pencil sketches:
top left: man on donkey
top middle: shaduf
[on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
top right: man on donkey
middle left: man
middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
[on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
middle right: man
bottom left: two camels
bottom centre: man
bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
[on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)
Two men with camel
Add to clipboard
Pencil sketch with two men and camel in foreground and remains of structure in the background.
mounted
[on mount] 'Bargaining for a Camel. Assouan.' (ink note)
Human figures
Add to clipboard
Four pencil sketches:
top centre: two men with staffs; one standing, one sitting
middle left: man standing
middle middle: five men sitting and standing
middle right: man standing
bottom: three men and two camels
Palace Gateway, Medinet Habu
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of palace gateway, Medinet Habu:
mounted
[on mount] 'Palace Gateway: Medinet Haboot.' (ink note)
Dahabiyya, Aswan
Add to clipboard
Pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyya near Aswan:
mounted
[on mount] 'Native Boat. Assouan.' (ink note)
The traders' landing place at Aswan
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of landing place at Aswan:
mounted
[on mount] 'Assouan. (The traders landing place.)' (ink note)
Ruins of Coptic Convent near Philae and traders' camp at Manhatta
Add to clipboard
Two pencil and watercolour sketches:
upper: building next to river
[on mount] 'Ruins of Coptic Convent. (near Philae.)'
lower: structure with two male figures
[on sketch] 'Soudan traders at Manhatta. Jan 21.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Trader's Camp: Manhatta.' (ink note)
Camels
Add to clipboard
Pencil and watercolour sketch of two camels.
Rock inscriptions at Philae
Add to clipboard
Watercolour and pencil sketch of rock inscriptions at Philae:
mounted
[on mount] 'Inscribed Rock. Philae.' (ink note)
Christian altar at Philae
Add to clipboard
Pencil drawing with Christian altar in the first hypostyle hall at Philae temple complex:
mounted
[on mount] 'Early Christian Shrine. Temple of Isis. (Philae)' (ink note)
Human figures
Add to clipboard
Nine mounted pencil sketches:
top left: seated male figure
top middle: male figure from behind
[on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
top right: male head
middle left: head of woman
[on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
middle middle: male figures
[on mount] 'Cataract Nubians. (Shellalee)' (ink note)
middle right: head of woman
[on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
bottom left: standing male figure
bottom middle: male figure
[on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
bottom right: standing male figure
Head of Ti; water sellers; donkeys; Sheik Salîm
Add to clipboard
Five pencil sketches:
top: Head of Ti
[on mount] 'Head of Ti. (a statue of IVth Dynasty in the Boolak Museum.) B.C. 4235.' (ink note)
middle left: water seller
[on mount] 'Water seller of Cairo' (ink note)
middle middle: donkeys
[on sketch] 'Cairo donkeys' (pencil note)
middle right: water sellers
[on mount] 'Water sellers' (ink note)
bottom: Sheik Salîm, Farshut
[on mount] 'Sheyk Saleem. (Farshoot)' (ink note). Sketch has additions in ink.
Human figures; camel; dahabiyya
Add to clipboard
Seven pencil sketches:
top left: dahabiyya
top middle: five figures
top right: standing male figure
middle: skeleton of camel
[on sketch] 'In the Desert. March 11th 1874' (in pencil)
[on mount] 'Skeleton of a Camel.' (ink note)
bottom left: standing male figure
[on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
bottom middle: three male figures
[on mount] 'Cataract Nubians.' (ink note)
bottom right: reclining male figure
[on mount] 'Cataract Nubian' (ink note)
Coptic ruins near Kalabshuh; Temple of Gertasseh; ruins of town near Maharrakeh
Add to clipboard
Three mounted pencil and watercolour sketches:
top: pencil sketch of landscape near Kalabsha
[on mount] 'Island & Coptic Ruins near Kalabsheh. (Nubia)' (ink note)
middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of Temple of Gertasseh
[on mount] 'Temple of Gertasseh (Nubia)' (ink note)
bottom: pencil and watercolour sketch of town near Maharraqa
[on mount] 'Ruins of ancient fortified Town (unknown) near Maharrakeh. (Nubia)' (ink note)
Temple of Amada; Temple of Dakkeh
Add to clipboard
Two watercolour and pencil sketches:
upper: Temple of Amada
[on mount] 'Temple of Amada (Nubia)' (ink note)
lower: Temple of Dakka
[on mount] 'Temple of Dakkeh' (ink note)