Marmolada; unidentified peak
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Two mounted watercolours:
upper: Marmolada viewed from Forcella d'Alleghe
lower: unidentified peak.
Dolomites album
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Album containing drawings and watercolours made by Edwards when travelling through the Dolomites, Italy, in 1872. Many of the preliminary sketches and watercolours in the album were used to illustrate her book Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys , published in 1873.
Contains 29 numbered pages with 44 mounted items
Watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Italy, some accompanied by Edwards' annotated captions.
Sunset; Kasr es Syad and Gebel Tookh; near Siout
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Three mounted pencil and watercolour sketches:
top: sunset
[on mount] 'Sunset (near Magada)' (ink note)
middle: dahabiya on the Nile
[on mount] 'Kasr es Syad & Gebel Tookh' (ink note)
bottom: dahabiya on the Nile
[on mount] 'Near Siout' (ink note)
Gebel Abu Foda. Middle Egypt.
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Boat on the Nile at Gebel Abu Foda, Middle Egypt:
mounted
watercolour
[on mount] 'Gebel Aboofayda. Middle Egypt.' (ink note)
Camels; remains of boat
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5 mounted pencil sketches: 4 sketches of camels in various poses; bottom sketch depicts the remains of a boat.
Market Boat at Minya
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Market boat:
mounted
watercolour
[on mount] 'Market Boat. Minieh' (ink note)
Dahabiyas at Roda
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Two dahabiya boats at Roda:
watercolour
mounted
[on mount] 'Native Dahabeeyahs. Roda' (ink note)
Dahabiyya, shadoof, Sheik Cotton, Mehemet Ali, water collection
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Five mounted pencil or pencil and wash sketches:
top: Dahibya
[on mount] 'native boat' (ink note)
middle left: Sheik Cotton
[on mount] 'Holy Sheyk Cotton' (ink note)
middle middle: a shaduf
[on mount] 'The Shadoof.' (ink note)
middle right: Mehemet Ali
[on mount] 'Mehemet Ali.' (ink note)
bottom: woman collecting water.
Head of pharoah
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Mounted pencil sketch of unidentified head of pharaoh.
Sistrum
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Pencil drawing of sistrum.
mounted
[on mount] 'Finis' (ink note).
Rock of Abusir
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Pencil and watercolour sketch of the rock of Abusir:
mounted
[on mount] 'The Rock of Abooseer. Second Cataract' (ink note)
Landscape between Derr and Abu Simbel; landscape at Wadi Halfa
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Two mounted watercolour and pencil sketches:
upper: landscape between Derr and Abu Simbel
[on mount] 'Extinct Volcano, between Derr & Aboo Simbel.' (ink note)
lower: river and dahabiyyahs at Wadi Halfa
[on mount] 'Wady Halfah' (ink note).
Cleaning statue at Abu Simbel
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Watercolour and ink sketch of men on scaffolding cleaning one of the statues at Abu Simbel:
mounted
[on mount] 'Cleaning the Colossus (Aboo Simbel)' (ink note).
Temple of Amada; Temple of Dakkeh
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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).
Coptic ruins near Kalabshuh; Temple of Gertasseh; ruins of town near Maharrakeh
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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).
Human figures; camel; dahabiyya
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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).
Head of Ti; water sellers; donkeys; Sheik Salim
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Five mounted 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, with further additions in ink
[on mount] 'Sheyk Saleem. (Farshoot)' (ink note)
Human figures
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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.
Christian altar at Philae
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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).
