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Bound manuscript on Egyptian hieroglyphs and related topics (Roman obelisks, Iseum in Rome, Isiac pomp described by Apuleius, Egyptian rites, mummies, etc.). Left unfinished.

Statue group of the Three Graces:

• ink and pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 19.7 x 23.2 cm

Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.

Studies of feet:

• ink and pencil sketches on card
• loose
• 8.1 x 15.9 cm
• [on sketch] '31 Decem 1916' (ink note)

Two men wrestling:

• pencil and carbon drawing on paper
• mounted
• 18.7 x 27.2 cm
• [on drawing] 'An 1816' (pencil note)

Free-standing sculpture of youth in tunic, partially erased study of right hand on left:

• pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
  -19.4 x 26.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'Sep 1817' (pencil note)

Oedipus led by his daughter, and sketches of two female figures holding vases:

• ink sketches on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 52.21
• 13.3 x 11.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'Oedipus led by his daughter / October 1817' (ink note)

Profile view of standing male nude with hands upraised, with frontal sketch of face and other figures:

• ink and pencil sketches on paper
• mounted
• 17.1 x 26.5 cm
• [on sketch] '1817' (pencil note)

Woman in dress from behind:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 25.4 x 42.5 cm
• [on sketch] '[R].B / August (?) 17'
• [on sketch] 'very good indeed' (pencil note)

Group of people inside a structure (not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 7.7 x 11.6 cm

Free-standing sculpture of Athena with helmet and shield:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 20.2 x 25.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'Sep 1817' (pencil note)

• 3 copies (1 typescript and two carbon copies) of a transcript made from Linant de Bellefonds' diary (1821-1822).
  • Titled: "Journal d'un Voyage en Ethiopie dans les Annees 1821 & 1822."
  • 279 typescript pages
  • Not Griffith Institute copyright. See below for details.
• 14 glass plate negatives, two sizes, with a set of modern prints made from the larger-sized negatives (1818-1826). Not Griffith Institute copyright. Negatives made from the originals in the Louvre.
• The negatives are copies of the following MSS:
• B.15 (parts A and B)
  • Triple statue (same as following), not identified, with texts
• B.26
  • Maison du Melek d'Argos
• B.30
  • Gebel Barkal. View of Pyramid field (North and South groups)
  • TopBib vii.208, 203
  • = Bankes MSS XV.C.7
• B.32
  • Gebel Barkal. Temple B.300. View of interior
  • TopBib vii.209
  • = Bankes MSS XV.C.2
• B.32 bis
  • Gebel Barkal. Great Temple B.500. Sketch, general view showing granite stand of Taharqa, with Nile-gods binding sma-symbol etc.
  • TopBib vii.216A & 209(43)
• B.36
  • Gebel Barkal. Great Temple B.500. Inner Court. Meroitic battle scene, including man on horseback and archer
  • TopBib vii.219(30)
  • = Bankes MSS XV.A.28
• B.38 bis
  • Gebel Barkal. Temple B.700. Pylon (destroyed). West wing, outer face, Senkamanisken smites captives before Amun-Re
  • TopBib vii.214
  • = Bankes MSS XV.C.8 [middle]
• B.45
  • Gebel Barkal. Temple B.300. Third Hall. View
  • TopBib vii.209
• B.62
  • Musauwarat el-Sofra. Great Temple. Views
  • TopBib vii.264
  • = Bankes MSS XVII.B.15
• B.68
  • Musauwarat el-Sofra. South-East Temple. Interior. North-East row of columns. Column 2, three registers
  • TopBib vii.267
  • = Bankes MSS XVII.B.6
• B.69
  • Musauwarat el-Sofra. South-East Temple. Interior. North-East row of columns. Column 1, two registers
  • TopBib vii.265
  • = Bankes MSS XVII.B.5
• B.73
  • Naga'. General view
  • TopBib vii.267
• B.105
  • Naga'. Lion Temple of Apedemak. Exterior. King, Queen and Prince, before Isis holding captives, Mut, Hathor and Satis
  • TopBib vii.269(21)-(22)
  • = Bankes MSS XVII.C.7-8

Two albums containing plans and drawings of Egyptian monuments.

Standing male nude stretching leg:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 52.20
• 6.0 x 11.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'May the 4 / 1820' (ink note)

Hero holding fainting woman:

• ink tracing on tracing paper
• mounted
• 9.8 x 15.3 cm
• [on tracing] 'March 1821' (ink note)

Seated Diana:

• ink sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 46.16
• 17.5 x 16.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'JB / 1821' (ink note)

Fragment of a seat from the amphitheatre at Catania in Sicily (Italy), with measurements:

• pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
• 21.4 x 29.8 cm
• [on drawing] '2 palmi / 3 palmi meno 4 onci / 4 palmi meno 2 onci / 2 palmi 6 onci / 2 " 2 / 1 1/2' (pencil notes)
• [on drawing] 'Catania destroyed by an eruption from Monte Rose / il villaggio di Nicolosi anno 669 / Catania. Sunday august 29 1824 / Fragment of a seat found in the amphitheatre' (pencil notes)

1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].

View of the Tomb of Archimedes with boy at Syracuse in Sicily (Italy):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 42.7 x 26 cm
• [on sketch] '1 The Sepulchre of Archimedes' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '2 also supposed to be - Sycruse September 1st 1824' (pencil note)

Cyclopean wall at Cori, Italy:

• ink and pencil sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 52.1
• 11.5 x 18.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'Cora June 24' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Cora' (pencil note)

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

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)

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 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

Cover of the Lane presentation album.

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

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

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)