Item Lloyd MSS 040 - Upper Egypt, a portrait of a woman carrying a young child on her shoulder

1 watercolour

A portrait of a woman and child in Upper Egypt; the woman carries the young child on her left shoulder and holds a small round vessel in her left hand; they stand in front of a raised bank with two palm trees beyond:

• watercolour
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 041 and Lloyd MSS 042
• 8.9 x 12.7 cm
• [on mount] 'Costume of Upper Egypt.' (ink note)
• [on mount] '40' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Costume of Upper Egypt / 9th April 1843.' (pencil note)

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