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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection Angličtina
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Notes and ephemera

This group consists of two parts:

  • part one: Edwards MSS 1.1-311
    • notebook, annotated on the cover: "Notes & Extracts"
    • containing 311 numbered ruled pages, with some loose and affixed items
    • content includes handwritten and printed material, watercolours and drawings
  • part two: Edwards MSS 1.312-347
    • 1 package containing 36 loose, numbered items
    • ephemera, mixed media, including handwritten notes, letters, sketches, rubbings, poems, newspaper cutting etc.

The Damascus Gate; men riding donkeys; a shaduf; camels; and water bearers

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)

Ali the Nubian; Riskalli; Salame; Reïs Hassan; unidentified people

Nine pencil sketches:

  • top left: person with staff
  • top middle: man sitting and smoking
    • [on mount] 'Ali, the Nubian.' (ink note)
  • top right: veiled woman with jars
  • middle left: head of man
    • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
  • middle middle: group of men with boat near Manfalut
    • [on mount] 'Group of Natives (waiting for the Ferry) Manfaloot' (ink note)
  • middle right: Man sitting
    • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
  • bottom left: Reïs Hassan
    • [on mount] 'Reïs Hassan' (ink note)
  • bottom middle: man reclining on ?carved block
  • bottom right: man standing
    • [on mount] 'Salame' (ink note).

Mountains above Thebes; mountains above Moramballa Marsh

Two images:

  • upper: watercolour of the mountains above Thebes
    • [on mount] 'Mountain range above Luxor. East Bank.' (ink note)
  • lower: clipping with engraving of landscape with caption: 'Mansanga, looking east from Moramballa Marsh'
    • [on clipping] Extraordinary resemblance to mountain range near Thebes, R. Bank. See sketch by ABE. S. East Africa. On the river [illegible], flowing out of Lake Nyassa, + into the Zambesi. This is near the mouth of the [illegible].' (pencil note).

Dolomites album

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.

Front end paper

  • [on label] 'This volume was re-bound through the generosity of AEMES (Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society, Lincolnshire), Manchester Ancient Egypt Society and the Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (Derbyshire) in August 2002' (printed).

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)

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)
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