Item Lloyd MSS 042 - El Menair, pool with wading birds

1 watercolour

Pool with wading birds, probably black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) or pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) at El Menair:

• watercolour
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 040 and Lloyd MSS 041
• 12.2 x 17.5 cm
• [on mount] 'Longshanks. El Menair going from Abu Zaable.' (ink note)
• [on mount] '42' (pencil note)
• [on recto of watercolour] 'El Menair. 18th Jan. 1843' [date faded] (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Longshanks. / El Menair going to Belbeis from / Abu Zaable. 18th Jan: 1843' (ink note)

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