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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

  • Edwards, A. A. B. MSS
  • Colección
  • 1856-1892
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
  • Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
  • Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
  • Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
  • First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

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

Front end paper

Front end paper:

  • [On pasted note] '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)

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.

Dahabiyya, shadoof, Sheik Cotton, Mehemet Ali, water collection

Five mounted pencil or pencil and wash sketches:

  • top: Dahibyya
    • [on mount] 'native boat' (ink note)
  • middle left: Sheik Cotton
    • [on mount] 'Holy Sheyk Cotton' (ink note)
  • middle middle: a shaduf
    • [on mount] 'The Shadoof.' (ink note)
  • middle right: Mehemet Ali
    • [on mount] 'Mehemet Ali.' (ink note)
  • bottom: woman collecting water.

Title page

Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:

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

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)

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

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)

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)
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