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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

  • 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

Philae from the north

Watercolour in its original mount, showing the temples on Philae Island, viewed from the north-west.

  • The watercolour is captioned on the mount, once below the watercolour and again on the verso. The captions are both the same but are written in two different hands: "Philæ from the North."
  • Although the watercolour is not signed, it was most certainly painted by Amelia A. B. Edwards.

Philae from the south

Watercolour in its original mount, the temples on Philae Island, viewed from the south. Although the watercolour is not signed or annotated, it was most certainly painted by Amelia A. B. Edwards.

Miscellaneous documentation

Photocopies of papers relating to the estate of Ellen Drew Braysher, owner of The Larches, Westbury on Trym, Gloucestershire, which were issued after Braysher's death, with a summary of accounts outstanding at that time. Amelia Edwards, who resided with Mrs Braysher from 1864(?) onwards, was the beneficiary of Braysher's estate.

Goddess at Abu Simbel

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

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)

Ramesses II at Abydos

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)

Ensign of Horus, Abu Simbel

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)

Scarab at Dendur

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)
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