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Figure from plate 11 of the Compositions from the tragedies of Aeschylus, designed by John Flaxman, engraved by Thomas Piroli, London (1795)

Figure from plate 11 of the Compositions from the tragedies of Aeschylus, designed by John Flaxman, engraved by Thomas Piroli, London (1795):

  • ink and wash sketch on paper (remains of pencil)
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 40.21
  • 14.5 x 10.6 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Flaxman's Eschilylus. Pl. 11.'

Exterior of a house

View of the exterior of a house perhaps in Egypt:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 18.4 x 11.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'a [?] / restauratio' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'I.G.' (ink note)

Explanatory note on design

Explanatory note on design:

  • pencil handwritten text
  • loose item, originally a tipped-in page perhaps for this album, with remains of mounting-strip on right side
  • 25.5 x 34.9 cm (including mounting-strip)
  • [text] 'I have drawn this simply as a title for my sketches. / The semicircle at the top, excepting the Cartouches / is from the doorway of the first vaulted Chamber / in the temple of El Assasief erected by Amensä / the mother of Thothmes 3rd. The other part is mere / composition. On the right is Thmai or Truth, and / on the left Safrä, the Goddess of Letters. The characters / are ornamented with the emblems of Lower and / Upper Egypt. The Cartouches are for Our Lady / Victoria, when I can get those from Birche's work. / 27th July sketched / 1st August finished / } / 1843 / { / G Lloyd. / Gurna / Thebes.'

Ewer and lamp design

Ewer and lamp design:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 42.10
  • 18.3 x 16.7 cm
  • [on sketch] 'PRUDENCE' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'PR' (pencil note, erased)
  • [on sketch] '[P]RUD - ENCE' (pencil note, erased)

Evelyn Blyth Collection

  • Blyth MSS
  • Collection
  • 1900-1906

107 postcards collected in Egypt between 1900-1906 by Miss E. Blyth (objects in Cairo Museum, sites, Cairo views, and Nile views) and 1 postcard of Bethlehem in Palestine.

Blyth, Evelyn

Europe uniting Asia and America

Europe uniting Asia and America:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted
  • 26.6 x 32.0 cm
  • [on sketch] 'AMERICA' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'EVROPA' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'ASIA' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'J Bonomi del.' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Europe uniting Asia and America / She extends to them Commerce and Peace / The wheels indicate the means, viz, the rail road' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'America youthful / attired in the costume / of the Mexicans stands / on the right of Europe / the position that / continent has with / respect to Europe / others the other two' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Asia more matronly / attired in more ample / garments stands on / the left of Europe' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Europe younger than / Asia wears the mural / crown surmounted by / a dome and a cross as / this division of the earth / entirely Xtian' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '10' (ink note)

Escorting Tutankhamun's "mannequin"

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • (Carter 116)
  • Howard Carter (second from right, striding, wearing a hat with a black band) accompanying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun (the so-called "mannequin"; Carter 116), which is carried by an Egyptian member of the team transporting the object to the "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation.
  • Also present in the photograph is Lord Carnarvon (sitting on the wall at the far left), who watches as the group passes by. The man walking to the left of the Earl is Arthur Weigall (dark hat with a darker headband), a former Egyptian Antiquities Service Inspector now engaged as a journalist reporting on the excavation. The other Europeans present here are also journalists or tourists.
  • The portrait bust of Tutankhamun [Carter 116] was found in the tomb's Antechamber. The King is portrayed wearing a yellow flat-topped crown featuring the centrally positioned uraeus on the crown's temple band. The King also wears a close-fitting white garment.
  • The bust's purpose is unclear, but it probably displayed part of the King's regalia. A recent proposal is that it may have been originally used for supporting and storing the King's gold corset (Carter 54k) in the tomb. When thieves ransacked the tomb in antiquity, these robbers likely removed the corset from the bust before breaking the heavy regalia into smaller, portable pieces.

England. London. Trafalgar Square. Nelson's Column.

Print of "Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square. &c." in London (England), by J. Shury, published by J. Harwood, with addition of statue of Britannia and other statues in watercolour:

  • print with watercolour (grey and brown) on paper
  • mounted
  • 18.9 x 15.7 cm
  • [on print] 'J. Shury. sculp' (printed note)
  • [on print] '12, Gt Carter Lane, Doctors Commons.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square. &c.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'PLACE DE TRAFALGAR.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'DIE NELSON SAULE.' (printed note)
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