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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1786.b.33, 1 Level [40] File

41. 1786.b.33, 1(41)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(41)
Title:
Esné [Isna]. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Nile riverbank at Isna (or Esna), with a local boat moored in the foreground: 'It possesses a tolerably well supplied bazaar. It is however principally interesting to the traveller from it Temple, and from the remains of the massive and extens...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

42. 1786.b.33, 1(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(42)
Title:
Esne [Isna]. (Pasha's Palace). Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across open ground towards the palace, surrounded by a walled garden, which 'is situated on the bank of the river, about half a mile below the town, and offers a very fair sample of the many country residences of the Pasha.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

43. 1786.b.33, 1(43)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(43)
Title:
The Pyramid of El-Kufeh [el-Kula]. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the small brick pyramid at el-Kula, near ancient Hierakonpolis, in ruinous condition: 'The Pyramid El-Kufeh is the most southerly in Egypt, being almost fifty miles above Thebes, and is conjectured by Bunsen to be the most ancient...It is built on the e...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

44. 1786.b.33, 1(44)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(44)
Title:
El-Kab. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of a portion of wall, with a collapsed portion in the centre, at el-Kab, on the east bank of the Nile opposite el-Kula: '[el-Kab] occupies the site of the ancient Eilythias, which, judging from the extent of the city walls and the number and beauties of th...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

45. 1786.b.33, 1(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(45)
Title:
Edfoo. (Front view of the Temple.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards south face the entrance pylon of the Temple of Horus at Edfu (Idfu). At this time almost half of the structure was still buried beneath the sand. This is noted in the accompanying letterpress, which speaks of 'the excellent [state of] prese...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

46. 1786.b.33, 1(46)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(46)
Title:
Edfoo. (Bird's-eye view.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography A view looking down onto the roof of the hypostyle hall, from the top of the pylon of the Temple of Horus at Edfu, with a small portion of the colonnade of the peristyle court visible in the foreground:'The photograph, which gives a bird's-eye view of the whole...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

47. 1786.b.33, 1(47)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(47)
Title:
Edfoo. (Screen.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Head-on view of the screened colonnade, with bas-relief decoration, forming the entrance to the hypostyle hall of the Temple of Horus at Edfu, taken from the peristyle court immediately inside the pylon. These are the columns partly seen in the preceding print:...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

48. 1786.b.33, 1(48)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(48)
Title:
Kom Ombos. (Temple enclosure.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the south-east corner of the pylon of the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo (on the left), with the brick wall of the temple enclosure behind (into which is set the granite gateway of the earlier temple. A figure ('one of our sailors') is placed ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

49. 1786.b.33, 1(49)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(49)
Title:
Kom Ombos. (The temple.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the columns and entablature, half-buried in the sands, of the hypostyle hall of the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo. Compare with a very similar view taken by Maxime Du Camp a decade earlier, at shelfmark 1261.d.30, plate 65 (in volume 2 of pre...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item