The solar disk, emerging above the horizon of the mountains, is held by the arms of Nut and those of a personified ankh, with a dressed personified djad pillar supporting the whole group; this central group is adored by four baboons, kneeling Isis and Nephthys and two ba-birds, from a painted wall scene in the Ramesside tomb of Nefersekheru (TT 296), at El-Khokha in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 122
17.7 x 25.7 cm
[on mount] '63' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'From a tomb near the Scheich El Beleds. / Gurna. / 15th July 1843. / This is not very correct as I drew it from a rough sketch / in my Note Book, and as the place was extremely hard to / get to, I did not take the trouble of going there again. / It is painted, but I saw no cartouche. The style of the / tomb is bad, as are the statues in it. The tomb is possibly / of the time of Amenoph 3rd but it is impossible to judge / from the style the period. / G Ll.' (pencil note)
Statue of Queen Teye next to the right leg of the southern colossus of Amenhotep III (Memnon Colossi), in the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
24.9 x 35 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Taia. / 8th Aug: 1843.' (pencil)
[on mount] 'The Wife of Amenophth 3rd. Height about 18 ft.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '17' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Taia the wife of Amenophth 3rd / From the S. colossal statue. Gurna. / The other statue is the Memnon. 8 Aug. 1843 / The height of this beautiful and unfortunately / mutilated figure is about 18 ft.' (pencil note)
Thebes, upper part of Ramesses II offering, detail of an unidentified scene, perhaps from one of the Osiride pillars in the Second Court or a column in the Hypostyle in the Ramesseum:
pencil drawing
mounted
25 x 35 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Ramases the great. / <<cartouches of Ramesses II>> / Memnonium. / 26th Aug. 1843.' (pencil)
Man fishing with a harpoon while seated on the riverbank at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes; next to him is a rod and line which has a live mouse suspended from it, presumably the mouse is being used as bait or a lure:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 114
25.7 x 17.7 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Gurna. Thebes. 20th Aug. 1843.' (pencil note)
Two rows of female mourners squatting on the ground, detail from a funerary scene in the tomb of Haremhab (TT 78), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right <twice>)
mounted
38.1 x 44.8 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Women mourners wailing. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 16 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
A priest, wearing a long cloak and carrying a staff, and a priestess, from the funeral cortege accompanying the sarcophagus which is being dragged to the tomb, in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Female servant bringing a gazelle and a tray laden with grapes, from a wall painting in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Three musicians (woman with harp, man with lute and woman with double-pipe), detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Five female musicians playing the harp, lute, double-pipe, lyre and tambourine, accompanied by a small female dancer, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '12' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Female Minstrels. / Tomb to which there is a forced passage from / No 17. / 1st Sept / 2nd Sept / } / 1843. / With exception of the first face on the left, all the others have been / carefully injured. I have restored these. The date of the tomb / I do not know, but it is probably about Amenophth 3rd. The / paintings are very badly done, and the tomb is unfinished. / The colours however are very fresh. There is in this as in other / tombs different colours for the females. The harper is yellow, / but the next woman is rather copper coloured, so is the / little girl, and the lute player. Were they women from the / Upper country, brought expressly for their national instru / ments? The girdle was not confined to the Upper country / women. Sotennofrä wears it.' (pencil note)
Thebes, a harp with the uppermost terminal decorated with the head of Tuthmosis IV, detail from a scene of presentation of royal gifts to the Temple of Amun, in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
24.9 x 35 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Harp. / Tomb, near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '29' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'This is one of the most exquisite things / I have seen in the tombs. It is not finished / for the tomb has never been completed. / The headdress is blue, the band and pendants / and serpent yellow or gold, the staff of the / Harp gold, and the base, silver or white.' (pencil note)
Three female musicians seated on the ground, one playing the double-pipe and the other two clapping, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 2nd Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '25' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'These women are under the others which I have copied / playing on the Harp, the double pipe, the lute and / the onestringed mandolin. Their faces have been / I believe also purposely defaced, and whoever traced / those above has used sealing wax to fasten the / paper.' (pencil note)
The young Amenhotep II seated on the lap of the royal nurse Amenemopet and holding captives, from a scene of the tomb of Amenemopet's son, Kenamun (TT 93), temp. Amenhotep II, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes: -pencil drawing
mounted
24.9 x 34.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Amenophth 2nd and Ramaithä / Tomb 33. 17th July 1843.' (pencil note)
Agricultural scenes including waiting mule-chariot, man asleep under tree, boy playing pipe, men carrying and threshing grain, from the tomb of Khaemhet (TT 57), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes::
Two female guests with two female attendants pouring water or oil onto the head of one of them, detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Ptahemhet (TT 77), later usurped by Roy, temp. Tuthmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (right <twice> and bottom)
mounted
66.2 x 46 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Lady in a bath. / Tomb at Thebes. No. 15 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
Two men in a pool collecting water in large jars (for brick-making), detail from a scene in the tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenophis II, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right)
mounted
35.2 x 45.6 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Taking fish out of a tank. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 35 ? / 10th July 1843.' (pencil note)
Decorative pattern from a boat-cabin, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:
pencil and watercolour drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing/watercolour] 'Tomb near 9. / Gurna. Thebes. / 25th Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'W.C. / [encircled] 58' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing/watercolour] 'Part of a Naos in a boat. / This would make a handsome Lambris arranged in a straight / line. / 25th Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
Woman carrying a menat and floral a bouquet, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
25 x 34.9 cm
[on mount] 'From a Tomb.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '18' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'From a tomb to the N. perhaps No 5. or / near it. / 11 July 1843. / The paintings are stiff but the style is not bad. / The details are very much worked out. All the / heads of the women were effaced, it is said by / Mr. Hay's draughtsman. I have restored the face, the / band round the head, and the feet.' (pencil note)