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Head of Ti; water sellers; donkeys; Sheik Salim

Head of Ti; water sellers; donkeys; Sheik Salim

Five mounted 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, with further additions in ink
    • [on mount] 'Sheyk Saleem. (Farshoot)' (ink note)
The Damascus Gate; men riding donkeys; a shaduf; camels; and water bearers

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)
Title page

Title page

Pencil and watercolour sketch of Cairo mosque:

  • mounted
  • [on mount, top] 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • [on mount] 'In the name of The Prophet - Cakes!" Moskee. Cairo.' (ink note)

Egypt large album

Album containing drawings and watercolours during visit to 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.

  • Annotation on the title page: 'Egyptian Scraps: 1874' (ink note)
  • 38 numbered pages with 107 mounted items
  • includes watercolours, drawings and sketches made in Egypt, many with Edwards' annotated captions

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.
Notes and ephemera

Notes and ephemera

This group consists of two parts:

  • Edwards MSS 1.1-311
    • notebook with annotation on the cover: 'Notes & Extracts' (ink note)
    • 311 numbered ruled pages, with some loose and affixed items
    • includes a range of handwritten and printed material, watercolours and drawings
  • 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.
Front end paper

Front end paper

Front end paper with 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).
Philae from the north

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.

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.

Philae from the south

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.

Scarab at Dendur

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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