Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection
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Edwards, A. A. B. MSS
Collectie
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
Title page
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Sketch missing.
[on mount] 'Small Egyptian Scraps,, 1874. T'ih: A Priest & noble of Memphis. IVth Dynasty.' (ink note)
Front cover
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Cover bound in green leather.
[on label] 'G/N28 Griffith Institute Ashmolean Museum, Oxford' (printed)
Back cover
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Back cover with green leather binding.
Headdress of a king at Edfu
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Pencil drawing of the headdress of a king:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Edfoo' (pencil note)
[Headdress of a King:. North wall Great Hall. Temple of Edfoo.' (pencil note)
King marking out foundations at Edfu
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Pencil drawing:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Edfoo. Ma' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'King marking out the foundations of a Temple. South wall. Great Hall. Edfoo.' (pencil note)
Goddess at Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of goddess:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Goddess represented on S wall of small temple of Hathor Ihsambool' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Goddess with headdress supposed to represent a sheaf of flax. S. wall. Smaller Temple. Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)
Ramsses II at Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of Ramesses II:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Head of last colossus on right interior of Large Temple' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Rameses II. Head of Osiride Caryatid Great Hall - Large Temple. Aboo Simbel.' (pencil note)
Portrait of Ramesses II, Karnak
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Pencil drawing of Ramesses II:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Portrait of Rameses II. Karnac.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'On the wall of a corridor leading to the Sanctuary - Karnak.' (pencil note)
Ramesses II at Abydos
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Pencil drawing of Ramesses II:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Abydos. (funeral scene) Rameses as Kings son worshipping Seti borne on throne as Gods' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Ramses II. as Prince. On the S wall of vaulted chamber to left of Great Hall - Abydos.' (pencil note)
Ramesses II at Beit el-Wali
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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)
Sistrum at Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of sistrum at Abu Simbel:
mounted
[on mount] 'Bas relief of Sistrum. Temple of Hathor Aboo Simbel.' (pencil note)
Ramesses II at Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel:
mounted
[on mount] 'Rameses II W. Wall. Library - Aboo Simbel.'
Ensign of Horus, Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of Horus from Abu Simbel:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Ensign dividing two large pictures on West wall of painted Chamber' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Ensign of Horus Araëris - library - Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)
Detail of cornice of from Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of detail of cornice at Abu Simbel:
mounted
[on mount] 'Cornice of library adjoining Gt Temple. Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)
Resurrection of Osiris, Philae
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Pencil drawing of resurrection of Osiris at Philae:
mounted
[on mount] 'Resurrection of Osiris - Osiris chamber. Philae' (pencil note)
Shrine of legs of Osiris at Philae
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Pencil drawing of shrine of legs of Osiris:
mounted
[on mount] 'Shrine of legs of Osiris: Osiris Chamber - Philae' (pencil note)
Shrine of arm of Osiris at Philae
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Pencil drawing of shrine of arm of Osiris:
mounted
[on mount] 'Shrine of arm of Osiris: Osiris chamber - Philae.' (pencil note)
Djed at Philae
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Pencil drawing of djed at Philae:
mounted
[on mount] Shrine of Head of Osiris - Osiris Chamber - Philae' (pencil note)
King and queen from Temple of Amada, Nubia
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Pencil drawing of king and queen embracing:
Mounted
[on sketch] 'King + Queen embracing. Temple of Amada. Nubia' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'To left of entrance. East wall Temple of Amada. Nubia.' (pencil note)
Scarab at Dendur
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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)
Goddess Taurt at Gebel el-Silsila
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Pencil drawing of Taurt at Gebel el-Silsila:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Silsilis.' (pencil note)
[on mount] ' Goddess Ta-urt: Chapel of the Ramessides: Silsilis. West bank.' (pencil note)
Goddess Taurt at Philae
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Pencil drawing of Ta-urt:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Philae March 9th 1874.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Goddess Ta-urt: Philae - facade of Mammisi' (pencil note)
Head of captive at Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of head of captive at Abu Simbel:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Head of captive to left of entrance. Temple of Hathor. Aboo Simbel.'
Head of Kushite captive at Abu Simbel
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Pencil drawing of Kushite captive at Abu Simbel:
[on drawing] 'Head of captive to right of Entrance. Ibid: Aboo Simbel' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Head of Cushite captive. East wall w sight of entrance. Great Hall. Aboo Simbel.'
Head of Pelasigian captive at Medinet Habu; helmet of captive
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Two mounted pencil drawings:
upper: head of captive
[on drawing] 'Pulusatan. Right pylon' (pencil note)
lower: helmet
[on drawing] 'Helmet of Captive. Medinet Haboot' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'head of Pelasgian Captive. Medinet Haboo. under gateway.' (pencil note)
Head of Syrian captive at Medinet Habu
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Pencil drawing of Syrian captive:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Pylon right of gate. Head of Captive | Syrian' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Syrian Captive. Pylon to right of Palace gateway - Medinet Haboo.'
Head of captive at Medinet Habu
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Pencil drawing of head of captive at Medinet Habu:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Pylon left of gateway' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Head of Captive. Pylon to S. of Palace Gateway - Medinet Haboo.' (pencil note)
Headdress of a king at Kalabsha
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Pencil drawing of the headdress of a king at Kalabsha:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Back of Gt. Temple Kalabshah.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Headdress of a King. Back of Great Temple - Kalabsheh.' (pencil note)
Headdress of a kng at Dakkeh
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Pencil drawing of the headdress of a king:
mounted
[on drawing] 'Headdress of King. Dakkeh.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Headdress of a King - Dakkeh.' (pencil note)