Identity area
Reference code
Paget MSS
Title
Rosalind Frances Emily Paget Collection
Date(s)
Level of description
Collection
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Context area
Name of creator
(1844-1925)
Biographical history
English copyist; she was born at Elford, 5 Jan. 1844, daughter of Revd Francis Edward P., Rector of Elford, Staffs, and Fanny Chester; he was a student at University College London, 1893-8; she went to Egypt 1895-6 with Miss Pine (later Mrs Quibell) for the Egyptian Research Account and copied the scenes in the tomb of Ptahhotep at Saqqara, published in the memoir The Ramesseum, 1896; she visited the temple of Deir el-Bahri and made many coloured facsimiles which were used by Griffith in his Hieroglyphs, 1898; these watercolours are in the Griffith Institute, Oxford; she died unmarried in Wells, 29 Jan. 1925.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Coloured drawings of hieroglyphs.
Part of Griffith Institute Watercolours and Drawings Collection.