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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1786.b.33, 2 Subject Architecture

11. 1786.b.33, 2(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(19)
Title:
Dendoor. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View from below, looking up towards the temple at Dendur, described in the accompanying letterpress as 'of a peculiar plan, but otherwise uninteresting;' now removed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

12. 1786.b.33, 2(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(20)
Title:
Dakkah. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the Temple of Thoth at el-Dakka (ancient Pcelcis), with the main body of the sanctuary in the foreground and the pylon beyond to the right. Between 1962 and 1968 the temple was moved upstream to a site at el-Sebua.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

13. 1786.b.33, 2(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(21)
Title:
Maharaka. (Temple.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the ruins of the temple at Miharrakah, with columns standing among piles of masonry, 'one of the most picturesque remains in Nubia, though never finished … There are no sculptures or paintings, a very rude representation of Isis, sitting un...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

14. 1786.b.33, 2(22)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(22)
Title:
Sabooa. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the half-buried inner pylon of the Temple of Amun and Re-Horakhty at el-Sebua, with a group of children and a small stuffed crocodile in the foreground: 'At Sabooa are the remains of a temple of the time of Rameses II. It is approached by a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

15. 1786.b.33, 2(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(23)
Title:
Korusko. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the mosque, with hillside beyond: 'Korusko may be considered the commercial metropolis of Nubia. It contains about 100 huts built of stones and mud, the walls are seldom more than seven feet high. Some of the roofs are covered by reeds or pa...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

16. 1786.b.33, 2(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(26)
Title:
Amada. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the south-west, looking up towards the hypostyle hall of the Temple of Amun-Re and Re-Horakhty at Amada, 'a temple in Nubia, built, sculptured and painted in the highest style of Egyptian Art, during the 18th dynasty...It is one of the very few temple...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

17. 1786.b.33, 2(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(31)
Title:
Queen's Temple at Abou Simbel. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View from ground level, looking obliquely upwards and along the sculptured façade of the Temple of Nefertari and Hathor, situated north-east of the great Temple of Rameses II, and showing the six standing colossi carved from the rock-face.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

18. 1786.b.33, 2(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(32)
Title:
Abou Simbel. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View from an elevated position at the north-eastern end of the façade of the Temple of Rameses II, looking down onto the upper halves of two of the four seated colossi of the pharoah, cut from the sandstone cliff. Much of the site was buried under the sands at ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

19. 1786.b.33, 2(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(33)
Title:
Abou Simbel. (Colossal statue.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of the upper half of the southernmost colossal seated statue of Rameses II on the façade of the great temple, with a figure posed beside the sculpture to indicate scale.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item

20. 1786.b.33, 2(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 2(34)
Title:
Abou Simbel. (Two northerly colossi.) Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the south end, looking along the façade towards the upper halves of the two northernmost colossi of the Temple of Ramses II, with the younger James Douglas posed in lap of the nearer sculpture. A faded print.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 item