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View of the River Mole

Pencil and watercolour sketch of countryside scene:

  • [on the reverse of sketch] 'On the Mole - foot of Box hill. (underlined) Unfinished rough sketch 1856. (underlined)' (pencil note)

Dying Aegena warrior; 'owl vase' from Troy; Greek head

Three drawings:

  • top: pen sketch of head of man.
    • [on drawing] 'Archaic Greek head bas relief, BC. 600. Hair represented by [drawing of hair texture] for curls - Beard by wavy lines-' (ink note)
  • middle: pen sketch of vase
    • [on drawing] '"Owl-vase" Troy' (ink note)
  • bottom: pencil sketch of warrior
    • [on drawing] 'Ægnia warrior, dying - Sculpture in the round fr Pediment of Temple circa B.C. 500.' (pencil note)

Greek male torso; Greek female head

Two drawings:

  • left: pencil sketch of statue of man.
    • [on drawing] 'Archaic Greek torso (male figure) showing extreme development of muscles.' (pencil note)
  • right: ink drawing of Greek head.
    • [on drawing] 'This is a rude attempt at a female figure - the "wings" are arms. Archaic Greek head female - circa B. C. 600. curls represented by [drawing of curls] + tresses as ropes. The eye, though face is profile, is always given as in full face - as in Egyptian paintings' (ink notes)

Letter with drawing of carving on the Via Augustales, Pompeii

Handwritten letter with ink drawing of carving:

  • [on drawing] 'Corner of the Via Augustales Pompeii. May 14th 1891. A.B.E. Saville Villa. August 25th /91. My own darling one - Tomorrow will be thy birthday, + a littly sketch is all a poo' Owl has to send thee - but Owl thinks that perhaps a wee littly sketch from Pompeii, done from the one made when poo' Owl was such a very very poo' Owl, will please thee more than a more valuable gift. My precious one, I am so glad thou art in a beautiful place for thy birthday, + getting fine air, + mountains, and good walks - even though thou art far distant from thy poo' poo' Owl. God bless thee my own oney - + I hope thou wilt have many, many birthdays, + happy years between each, + that thy Owl may live ~~thee~ to give thee less anxiety + more happiness for the future. I have walked to the end of the promenade this morning, + back, before luncheon - the first time I have taken a real good walk so early. It had been pouring in torrents all the morning, + I thought, as it was then holding up, I had better make the most of it. I felt all the better for it, + ate a capital luncheon when I came in. ' I enclose a very satisfactory letter from Petrie - satisfactory both as to the [?] + the Haworths. I [?] hope he will stick to it (woodside, I mean) + not put it off till he has no time left for it. I tried, in writing to him, to let him see by a sort of sidelight, that I deemed it of real importance - + yet not to make too much of it. I did not want to make him feel the painful weight of obligation - + yet I tried that he should gather that I was grave about it. He is so very sharp, that I fancy he wd. not fail to seize a shade of meaning, however slight. He has returned Goodyear's cutting, so I now send it to thee - but I want it back for the Haworths, who have not yet seen it. Baby's little drawing of the tablet is very good - very good indeed. I am sure the oney could draw well with a little teaching + application. How curious the recumbent figure in the "pinked" shroud is, at the bottom!' (ink note)

Letter signed 'Martyred Owl'

Handwritten letter with ink drawing of owl:
' I send it to thee to read, will a 'return' [?] [?]? Will thy Owl what S. Chester charges thee for the amulets. I cannot find the string of scarabs that came to me with the rest of Sir. E. Wilsons little collection - + am troubled. I should be so sorry if they were p[?]ing mislaid or lost, like Petrie's things. My sweet, own, darling baby lover-bird, goodbye. Thy poor, lonely, fond, crippled little Martyred Owl' (in ink).

Head of Ti

Printed invitation to the Egypt Exploration Fund's Annual General Meeting with pencil drawing of head of Ti pasted on reverse:

  • [on mount] 'Ti (underlined) - a priest + landowner of Memphis. Vth Dynasty.' (ink note)

Poem 'To his mummy (who is older than he)'

Handwritten poem:
'To his mummy, (who is older than he) -

What shall I call thee? Mummy, - Sweetheart mine,
Where shall I find thee?... if in truth I dare
To disinter thee from the desert plain
And carry off thy body to afar.

Where shall I find thee? Burrowing with my hands
Tale[?] deep in the earth, as when they seek to meet
Some prised treasure. Yes, to far off lands
we'll travel now this summer fair my sweet.

Thy home shall be some great museum, framed
With all the splendours art can cast around,
Where thou shalt soon midst wond'ring peoples stand,
Nor think x [?] more to lie in native ground.

Yes come, I know, thou wilt! For well nigh due
Is now another find; since two days past
Have not seen a portrait, and anew
I seek to find another love at last.

I waked last night from dreams of finds, and lo!
Five new tombs have we opened now today,
And sure in one of them, deep down, full low,
Thy smiling face is lying! Come away!

Away dear love to meet and greet the sun,
Which yet thou hast not seen for ages past,
When thou lay down, Europe had scarce begun
To run its course, which thou shalt see at last.

Swift, swift, we'll travel by Northern shore
Dear lady! from the drowsy East fly fast,
Darkness + ignominy are no more,
Thy treasured features now are mine at last.

Hawara

W.m.F.P.
With many apologies to A.B.E.

St Gallus Portal from the Basel Munster

Envelope and pencil drawing of carving of people dressing themselves:

  • [on drawing] From the Portal of St Gallus. Basel Minster - Aug 26th /62. The Dead putting on their clothes at the sound of the last Trumpet.' (pencil note)
    [on envelope] 'Miss Amelia B. Edwards, The Larches, Westbury-on-Trym, Near Bristol. NOT to be sealed.' (printed).

Mr Smith ascending the Kobel-alp

Ink drawing of man walking:

  • [on recto of drawing] 'Mr Smith ascending the Kobel-alp.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'or "The British Tourist ascending the Kobel-alp.' (ink note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'Amelia B. Edwards' (underlined) (pencil note)

Woman and crocodile

Ink drawing of woman and crocodile:

  • [on drawing] 'The Larches, Westbury-on-Trym, Nr. Bristol.' (printed) 'Act the Third (underlined) "''Tis distance lends enchantment to the view." May 1. 1888.' (ink note)

Blank page with label

  • [on label] 'With the compliments of the Acting Keeper of the Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford' (printed) '3 Albums brought down from upper Library by Mrs. Gunn. They seem to be Griffith, one having F.II. G. (underlined) inside.' (pencil note)

Ephemera album

Album containing ephemera created and collected, relating to various subjects and was created at different times.

  • The album contains 46 numbered items
  • These items are not mounted and are placed loose between the album's pages
  • Includes watercolours, drawings, sketches, letters, notes, caricatures, etc.
  • Some of the material is related to the Egypt and Dolomites documentation
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