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Albums

This group consists of four albums.

  • Edwards MSS 2.1
    • Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874
  • Edwards MSS 2.2
    • Watercolours and drawings made in the Dolomites, 1872
  • Edwards MSS 2.3
    • Ephemera, including some Egypt- and Dolomite-related material, 1872-1891
  • Edwards MSS 2.4
    • Watercolours and drawings made in Egypt, 1874

Egypt large album

Album containing drawings and watercolours made by Edwards when visiting 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.

  • Annotated on the first page: "Egyptian Scraps: 1874"
  • Containing 38 numbered pages with 107 mounted items
  • Watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Egypt, many with Edwards' annotated captions

Title page

Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:

  • mounted
  • [on mount] '"In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (in ink)

Human figures

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

Waterwheel, Sîut

Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:

  • mounted
  • [on sketch] 'Near Siout. Jany 1 1874' (painted note)
  • [on mount] 'Waterwheel. Siout' (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)

Dendarah landscape, human figures, Nerghaileh

Nine sketches:

  • top left: pencil sketch of donkey
  • top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
    • [on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
  • top right: pencil sketch of man wading
  • middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
  • middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
    • [on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
  • middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
  • bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
    • [on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
  • bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
    • [on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (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)

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)

Two men with camel

Pencil sketch with two men and camel in foreground and remains of structure in the background.

  • mounted
  • [on mount] 'Bargaining for a Camel. Assouan.' (ink note)

Human figures

Four pencil sketches:

  • top centre: two men with staffs; one standing, one sitting
  • middle left: man standing
  • middle middle: five men sitting and standing
  • middle right: man standing
  • bottom: three men and two camels

Human figures

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

Head of Ti; water sellers; donkeys; Sheik Salîm

Five 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
    • [on mount] 'Sheyk Saleem. (Farshoot)' (ink note). Sketch has additions in ink.

Human figures; camel; dahabiyya

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)

Coptic ruins near Kalabshuh; Temple of Gertasseh; ruins of town near Maharrakeh

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)
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