drawing
- Museum number
- 1966,0615.1
- Description
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Temple of Horus and the town of Edfu; stretch of water across foreground, temple and town beyond, red sky above
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1855 (the year he was in Egypt)
- Dimensions
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Height: 118 millimetres
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Width: 174 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Two typed labels attached to back of modern mount, one concerning place and the other a discussion on the possible date of this and BM 1966,0615.2 also by the artist
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1966
- Acquisition notes
- Correspondence received by the BM from Joan Gladstone dated 24.v.1966 records that this drawing was a gift of gratitude from the artist to her great aunt, Mrs Isabelle Laurie, who together with her husband nursed Lord Henry back to health on their dahabeah on the Nile when he became ill in Egypt.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1966,0615.1