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Hector Horeau Watercolour - Karnak

View of the pillars and architraves of the great temple at Karnak:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] 'Plafond bleu avec étoiles'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, top right corner] '6'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'Comparaison des différents ordres Egyptiens'. (ink note)
  • 11.7 by 14.8 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Ramesseum

Bust of colossus of Ramesses II originally from the 2nd southern court of the Ramesseum, now in the British Museum (EA 19):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'au British museum'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] '[ ] British [ ]'. (ink note)
  • 7.5 by 10.6 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Ramesseum

Cartouches of Ramesses II from the Ramesseum:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] '-Thebes-'. (ink note)
  • [on recto]'Cartouche du fragment de belle statue calcaire dans l'avenue de sphinx au temple près de -Gournah-'. (ink note)
  • 7.5 by 10.6 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Ramesseum

Detailed plan and section (reconstruction) of the Ramesseum:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top right edge] 'memnonium par Leper[ ]'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'PA = plan anglais = dans le plan anglais pas de pentes douces (ce qui est mieux) un peron 1ere cour 3 peron 2e cour 1 pylone beaucoup plus large'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Plan et Coupe du Rhamesseion'. (ink note)
  • 40.1 by 17.8 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Luxor

View from the river Nile of Luxor by Nestor L'Hôte:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom right edge] 'Luxor dessin de nestor l'hote'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'LUXOR'. (ink note)
  • 21.9 by 10.9 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Luxor

Relief scene from the Birth Room at Luxor temple, with images of the god Thoth and a queen (birth scenes scenes in II, 1-3 at (152)):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, lower left side] 'Thoth savoir, Chnouphis puissance force, Venus athor'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'La Reine TMAU-HEM-VA femme du Pharaon THOUTMES IV mettant au monde AMENOPH III (Memnon)'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'LUXOR Auprès du Sanctuaire de Luxor'. (ink note)
  • 30.9 by 11.5 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Luxor

View from the river Nile of Luxor temple and nearby modern buildings:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'LUXOR'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'nº 20'. (ink note)
  • 34.5 by 19.5 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Alexandria

Catacomb (also known as the Grand catacomb) within the Wardian area at Alexandria, two individuals visible in the background using candlelight:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, edges of watercolour] 'la Nécropole bains de Cléopâtre'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Alexandrie, Bain de Cléopâtre'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'nº 2'. (ink note)
  • 34.4 by 25 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Alexandria

View of Alexandria, including Pompey's Pillar:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left edge] 'chameau mort devoré par les chiens'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom right edge] 'hr. 28m 748 tout ensemble compris fond.on colonne dite de Pompée'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, top edge] 'Alexandrie'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Colonne de Pompée'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'nº 2'. (ink note)
  • 34.4 by 25 cm

Hector Horeau Collection

  • Horeau MSS
  • Collection
  • 1838

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

Horeau, Hector

Homer, Sidney - correspondence

1 letter from Homer, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Homer.
Query about interest rates in ancient Egypt. Homer authored A History of Interest Rates. Homer was recommended by R. A. Parker.

Hlouškovi family - correspondence

2 letters from the Hlouškovi family to Černý'.
The Hlouškovi family, who lived in Boskovice (Moravia), were related to Marie Sargant (Černý's future wife).
Personal matters.

Edward Hincks Collection

  • Hincks MSS
  • Collection
  • early 1830s-1866
  • Hincks MSS 1: Correspondence, and Warren Dawson's handwritten catalogue for the same ['Box A', 'Box B' and notebook]
  • Hincks MSS 2: Notes, unfinished lecture ['Box C']
  • Hincks MSS 3: A small number of plaster casts made from Egyptian and Assyrian objects [two small boxes]:
    • Egyptian funerary cones (Davies and Macadam, Nos 3 and 20)
    • Marriage scarab of Amenhotep III [Amenophis III] (perhaps Blankenberg van Delden A18)
  • Hincks MSS 4: A hand copy made by W. R. Dawson of Hincks, 'On Certain Egyptian Papyri in the British Museum', published in Transactions of the British Archaeological Association at its Second Annual Congress held at Winchester, August 1845 [one notebook]
  • Hincks MSS 5: Portrait painting (oil on canvas, 79 x 104 cm, 107.5 x 133 cm with frame) by Richard Hooke (1820-1908)

Hincks, (Revd) Edward

Jean-Jacques Hess von Wyss Collection

  • Hess von Wyss MSS
  • Collection

Notebooks and notes on demotic and Meroitic, including copies of papyri and squeezes.

Hess von Wyss, Jean-Jacques

Helck, Hans Wolfgang - correspondence

1 letter from Helck, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Helck.
Correspondence represents the smaller part of a larger exchange (existing letters contain references to other letters) concerning Helck's publication: Helck, W. Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs (1958) (OEB 6234). Following this publication, Černý decided not to publish his planned paper on Viziers (see Černý MSS 5.7-8), which Helck regretted.

Heathcote Negatives Collection

  • Heathcote MSS
  • Collection
  • 1922-1933

Negatives of Egyptian antiquities, scenes of daily life, and landscapes.

Heathcote, Reginald St. Alban

Hayes, William C. - correspondence

10 letters from Hayes, 7 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Hayes.
Correspondence mainly concerned with professional matters:

  • Deir el-Medina finds in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, notably from the tomb of Sennedjem, TopBib i2.5, photographs of the objects from the tomb
  • question of ownership of a scribal palette in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 47.123, bought from the art dealer, John Tano
  • 21st Dynasty chronology
  • publications exchange
  • Černý's plan to finalize his book on the royal workmen
  • Hayes satisfied with Eric Young as their new team member, Young had been recommended by Černý
  • also personal matters, including a planned visit by Černý to New York

Robert Hay Collection | copies of documentation in other collections

  • Hay MSS
  • Collection
  • 1824-1834

Typescript copy of Hay's journal from 24th November 1824 to 27th October 1827, photographs of drawings made by Hay in the tomb of Neferhotp (TT49) (Griffith Institute photos. 3070-7), 13 mounted photographs made from Hay's drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada, and microfilm roll with copies of the Hay MSS once in the British Museum and now in the British Library.

Hay, Robert

Edward James Hawker Collection

  • Hawker MSS
  • Collection
  • 1850-1852

Three albums containing drawings and watercolours.

Hawker, Edward James

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