Identity area
Reference code
Paget MSS
Title
Rosalind Frances Emily Paget Collection
Date(s)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
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.