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Hector Horeau Watercolour - el-Dakka

View of the temple at el-Dakka:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'NUBIE.R.O. DAKKE'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Vue, Plan et Détails du Temple de Dakkeh'. (ink note)
  • 24.6 by 16.7 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - el-Dakka

Plan of the temple at el-Dakka

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'PLAN DU TEMPLE DE DAKKE OB.ons les Seuils du Pilone en granit A TIPHON B LION à terre C NAOS granit rose D FIGURE voir vue E LIONS bas relief'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'NUBIE.R.O'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Vue, Plan et Détails du Temple de Dakkeh'. (ink note)
  • 24.6 by 34.3 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Beni Hasan

Boats from Beni Hasan tomb relief scenes. On the upper half is a boat with several rowers and men at the bow steering, followed by another boat with a larger standing figure at the bow; the second boat on the right within the fourth register at (6) of the tomb of Khnumhotep (Tomb 3, Beni Hasan). The lower left side sketch shows the stern of a boat found on the left within the fifth register at (12) of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan), the lower right side sketch is a detailed boat from the right side within the sixth register at (15) also of the tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2, Beni Hasan):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top right] 'grand prêtre'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, centre] 'culottes et robes blanches (probablement des pretres)', 'barque du defunt'. (pencil notes)
  • [on recto, bottom left] 'il y a parfois 2 gouvernails', 'corps mort'. (pencil notes)
  • [on recto, bottom right] 'cette surface listé en jaune ressemble à une bandiere (drapeau) ou rideau pr cacher les femmes lorsqu'elles ont besoin d'etre seule'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'BENI HASSAN'. (pencil note)
  • 21.6 by 15.7 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Saqqara

View of Saqqara with the pyramids visible in the distance:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Zaqqarah'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue des Pyramides de Zaqqarah'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] '4. Pyramides de Zaqqarah'. (ink note)
  • 17.3 by 12.4 cm

Hector Horeau Drawing - Philae

Detail of a column capital from the Hathor temple at Philae, including faint notes of measurements:

  • ink drawing
  • mounted
  • [on mount, verso] 'Chapiteaux restaurés Temple de Vénus Athor'. (ink note)
  • 26.7 by 25.2 cm

Hector Horeau Collection

  • Horeau MSS
  • Collectie
  • 1838

Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.

Horeau, Hector

Enclosure 1

Note with annotations in two different hands referencing the album's contents and previous ownership.

  • 12.4 x 10 cm
    • Upper annotation, later than the following note
      • blue ink, ballpoint
      • [Note] 'Pictures by C W Lane Edward Lane? / or Richard Ladd? / some pictures of his in Tate'
    • Lower annotation, earlier than the preceding note
      • Black or dark blue ink
      • 'Passed on with much / pleasure to Kitten and / Rosemary from May C / Buckton, knowing the / book will have such a / good home'

Four Egyptian women in house

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

Bab al-Nasr gate, Cairo

View showing the Bab al-Nasr gate, the mosque of al-Hakim, and part of the city walls in Cairo. Although the caption mentions the Bab al-Futuh gate, it is not recorded in this watercolour.

  • pencil, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.4 x 10.1 cm
  • [Lane's caption on verso of album page, at top left corner] 'The Ba'b en-Nasr & Ba'b el Footon' being two of the principal gates of Musr el(?) ~~xxxxxx xxxxxx xx xx ~~ : - a the former - b the latter. c c the two / minarets of the ruined mosque of El-Wha'kim. / Erected A H. 480 - A.D 1087-8.' (pencil note)

Courtyard, Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, Cairo

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, female musicians, tomb of Amenhotep-si-si, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna

Tomb wall scene, female musicians, from the hallway of tomb Amenhotep-si-se (TT75), Sheikh Abu el-Qurna. The musicians play a harp, lute, double-pipe, a girl dancing, lyre and a tambourine:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Female musicians & dancers — from the paintings at a tomb in the Hill of the shey'kh Abd El-Ckoor'n[eh]'.' (pencil note, 'eh' of 'Ckoor'neh' is cut off, presumably when the mounted drawings were bound)

Sunrise at Giza

View of the sunrise (or sunset) at the Giza pyramid field:

  • monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 9.9 cm
  • no annotations
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