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Egypt large album
Edwards MSS 2.1 · File · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

Album containing drawings and watercolours during visit to Egypt in the winter of 1873-1874. Many of the preliminary sketches and watercolours in the album were used to illustrate her book A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, published in 1877.

  • Annotation on the title page: 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • 38 numbered pages with 107 mounted items
  • includes watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Egypt, many with Edwards' annotated captions
Scarab at Dendur
Edwards MSS 2.4.19 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

Pencil drawing of scarab beetle at the Temple of Dendur:

  • mounted
  • [on drawing] 'Dendoor' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'Scarabæus over S. door + Lotus ornament. Dendoor.' (pencil note)
Edwards MSS 2.1.2 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

  • top left: man on donkey
  • top middle: shaduf
    • [on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
  • top right: man on donkey
  • middle left: man
  • middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
    • [on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
  • middle right: man
  • bottom left: two camels
  • bottom middle: man
  • bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
    • [on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)
Human figures
Edwards MSS 2.1.11 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

9 pencil sketches:

  • top left: man leaning on staff and woman with jar
  • top middle: man
  • top right: two women, one with a child
  • middle left: woman with jar
  • middle middle: man sitting
  • middle right: woman with child
  • bottom left: woman collecting water
  • bottom middle: man with pipe
  • bottom left: two men.
Ramesses II at Beit el-Wali
Edwards MSS 2.4.3 · Item · 1874
Part of Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

Pencil sketch of Ramesses II at Beit el-Wali:

  • mounted
  • [on sketch] 'Bayt el Whally' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'Rameses II as prince, combatting. To right of entrance, East wall. Bayt el Wely.' (pencil note)