Sketchbooks illustrate travels and excursions done in Egypt and Sudan by the British lady Florence Attwood Mathews, the second daughter of British... Show moreSketchbooks illustrate travels and excursions done in Egypt and Sudan by the British lady Florence Attwood Mathews, the second daughter of British writer and doctor James John Garth Wilkinson (1812 – 1899). The contents of the sketchbooks stretch over the period 1898–1916, with particular emphasis on January–March 1898 and November 1913–July 1914. Volume I largely tracks Attwood-Mathews’s Nile cruise in early 1898, when she travelled on the post steamer Amenartas from Cairo to Khartoum. She was interested in the ongoing Mahdist War and the British involvement in it: one watercolor portrays six British military officers from various regiments travelling on board the Amenartas, while another shows a boat towed behind the post steamer with troops on board. Similarly, in Volume II, Attwood-Mathews chose to paint a couple of landscapes as much for their role in the conflict as any aesthetic appeal. A vista of two hilltops viewed from the Nile is described as follows: “Where the battle of Toski was fought, under these hills”. Meanwhile, the view from her hotel balcony in Khartoum is accompanied by the following caption: “Sand dunes where our troops lay the night before the battle of Omdurrman [sic]”. Atwood-Mathews’ interest in the Mahdist War continued after the end of the conflict in 1899, as evident from the many newspaper clippings pasted into Volume I, the latest dated 1916. Most of these are concerned with the events of the war and the people involved in it and include general reports (“The Soudan Crisis”, “Sirdar’s speech to the troops”), political coverage such as Sir Reginald Wingate’s succession as Governor-General of Sudan, as well as several “Romance of the Sudan” stories concerning Joseph Ohrwalder, a Roman Catholic priest held captive by Mahdists for ten years. Two of the three photographs pasted into the sketchbook show Mahdist leaders captured by British-Egyptian forces; Attwood-Mathews identifies them as Emir Abu Zeid, Emir Mahmoud, Emir Yunis al-Dikaym, and Osman, Khalifa Abdallahi’s son. The third photograph depicts a ‘plane above an Egyptian crowd. Interspersed with the watercolors, clippings, and photographs are numerous signatures, cartes-de-visite, and occasional inscriptions of British military and administrative figures based in the Nile region, including Sir Archibald Hunter, British Army General and Governor of Omdurman; Colonel E. S. Stanton, the Governor of Khartoum; the Governor-General of Sudan Sir Reginald Wingate; G. E. Matthews, Governor of the Upper Nile Province; Colonel Colin Scott-Moncrieff; and James Henry Butler Pasha, soldier and Governor of the White Nile Province. Clearly, Attwood-Mathews had both interest in and access to many of the key British colonial figures established in Egypt and Sudan in the early 20th century. However, she was undoubtedly also intrigued by the history and culture of the region in general, as evident in the collection of signatures by Egyptologists, including Howard Carter, E. A. Wallis Budge, Ernest A. T. Wallis, and A. H. Sayce. While many watercolors in Volume I depict landscapes painted from the deck of the Amenartas, there are also views of the pyramids of Giza, streets in Cairo, Nag Hammadi, and Khartoum, the Sidi Arif Mosque in Sohag, windmills and feluccas spotted along the river, as well as several studies of the everyday life of local Egyptians and Sudanese. The watercolors in Volume II, predominantly dated between late 1913 and early 1914, show a similar range in subject matter. Sunrise and sunset panoramas of the landscape near Abu Girgeh, Nag Hammadi, Denderch, and Khartoum dominate. However, there are street views of Cairo, Aswan, and Khartoum, two studies of the ancient Egyptian temples of Wadi es-Sebua and Amada in their original location prior to the relocation in 1964 due to the Aswan Dam project, as well as two pleasant portraits of local boys in Khartoum. Also included in Volume II is a loosely inserted watercolor (253 × 177 mm), dated December 1905, depicting locals at the waterfront in Beni Hasan. Title and date devised by Library staff. Sketchbooks with a contemporary beige cloth, beige closure strap, brush holder to top edge of rear boards. All watercolours with pencilled captions on the adjacent leaves. Ticket of London-based artist’s equipment shop L. Cornelissen & Son to rear pastedowns. Volume I has 4 hieroglyphs and a central design of a scarab with spread wings hand-painted to front board; it is housed in a dark blue flat back cloth box. It consists of 38 full-page watercolours, numerous autographs, mounted cartes-de-visite, letters, newspaper clippings, 3 photographs; also with 5 loosely inserted items: 2 sketches, 1 letter, 1 envelope, and 1 autographed paper slip. Volume II has 16 full-page watercolours, 2 portraits, and 1 sketch. Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.2017.0003.02 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24384276 BIB-ID: 2555496 Show less
Aden. General views. Entrance to the Port. Steamer Point. Market. Barracks. Mosque. Grande Place [sic]. Tanks. Sultan's Palace. British officers.... Show moreAden. General views. Entrance to the Port. Steamer Point. Market. Barracks. Mosque. Grande Place [sic]. Tanks. Sultan's Palace. British officers. Types. Houses. Camel market. Main Pass. Ships. Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf. Suez Canal. England. India. Accompanied by a letter transcribing a text written between 1868/70 related to some photographs taken at that time by Colonel George Napier. The original text was supposedly written by the latter. Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographs ranging from 15 x 21 cm to 21 x 29 cm. The album includes four panoramas, two formed by four photographs (20 x 96 and 18 x 95 cm), and two more composed by two prints (20.5 x 49.5 and 18 x 47.5 cm). Some photographs are dated and captioned on the mount or on the verso. Main Heritage Office General HC.HP.2016.0037 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23119305 BIB-ID: 2450851 Show less
The album collects photographs taken by a British non-commissioned officer in Aden, between 1929 and 1933. Pictures cover a wide variety of... Show moreThe album collects photographs taken by a British non-commissioned officer in Aden, between 1929 and 1933. Pictures cover a wide variety of subjects related to the British quarter in Aden (troops, officers, buildings) as well as artillery and ships, but also streets, mosques, buildings and people of various districts of Aden, such as Crater, Sheikh Othman, Steamer Point, and Lahej. Few photographs documenting the Mahatma Gandhi's visit to Aden in September 1931, on his way to London. Some postcards of Aden, also dated 1967, are pasted and captioned at the end of the album. ADEN: Ahman Khul Fort -- Cemetery Valley Steamer Point -- Harbour -- Elephant’s Trunk -- Street T.9 -- Signal Station -- Gold Mohur Valley -- Sheikhs from Up Country -- Camel washing -- H.M.S. Vindictive leaving harbor moving astern -- Group at Pallonjee’s -- 3 inch 20 cwt 20 A.A. gun Fort Horbut -- A.I. gun Fort Horbut -- A. II gun Fort Horbut -- Interior Christ Chruch Steamer Point -- Arrival of Lord Irwin late Viceroy of India -- Lord Irwin about the inspect local troop of Scouts -- Aden Policeman -- 3 inch 20 cwt H.A. Mk -- Camel cart -- Water cart -- Cinema S S.I. -- H.M.S. Submarines Olympus Parthian -- View from sea -- Native school Steamer Point -- View of the Crescent from rear -- View of the Crescent taken from the hills -- View along the rocks -- Guard of honor -- Fred + Bob + me -- View from Fort Tarshine -- Dhobi -- A.A. Section -- Left section -- Right section -- A glorious Sandy Stretch -- High jump -- Long jump -- Main pass, Aden -- 120 yds Hurdles -- S.S. Viceroy of India P -- N.C.O.’s bunks Fort Morbut -- Blanco -- My quarters in Morbut -- Ghandi returns aboard -- Ghandi on Prince of Wales Pier -- Again Ghandi -- Aden Harbour -Aden Signal Station -- Little Aden -- Another view of Harbour -- Water donkeys -- Junior N.C.O.’s Mess 1931 -- At Padre Harding’s -- Crater Main pass -- St. Mary Church -- Minaret -- Towers of Silence -- Mosque of Al Aidrus. ADEN (Crater): In the hills -- “Main road” Crater -- View od Crater from Hills -- View from tanks -- Among tanks -- Capt. Haines -- Tablet fiving official information about tanks -- A Hindu temple -- Legendary tomb of Cain high up in cliff face -- Dhow under construction in Maala dockyard -- Maala dockyard -- A minaret -- Showing detail of woodwork on a dhow -- Mosque of Al Aidrus -- Towers od silence -- View of Crater from St. Mary Church -- St. Mary Church -- The Danish mission and school -- Cement crusher -- Mosque of Al Aidrûs Crater -- A few goats -- In retreat -- S+S institute. ADEN STEAMER POINT & CRATER: Crater -- A view of old Aden from our westward bound trooper -- Arab dhows, Aden -- Water sellers, Aden, Arabia. ADEN: Aboard the launch -- Nearing the trooper -- H. T. Dorsetshire Homeward bound -- A last view -- Goodbye. SHEIK OTHMAN: Minaret and mosque -- well -- Mosque shown on right of left upper -- Minaret -- View from SH. O. looking towards Aden -- Edge of Crowd -- A crowd of Arabs arriving for the show -- Group of camels -- Same group of camels -- Swings -- “Try your luck” -- Again “Try your luck” -- “Ices!!!” -- The witch doctor -- some of the crowd -- Sweet shop -- Group of Armed police -- Aden Armed police -- Armed policeman -- Sorting grain -- A fountain in the gardens -- A street corner -Fruit seller’s shop -- Camels and young. SHEIK OTHMAN & LAHEJ: Water “chatties” -- Palace of Sultan of Lahej -- Arab kiddies Lehej Aden -- H. M. King’s Birthday 7 am 3 June 1930 Troops on parade -- Camel washing -- The Elephant’s Trunk -- Ahman Khul [sic] Fort used as P. F. or D.R.F. station -- Cemetery Valley -- Looking towards Steamer -- Territorial Battery in action at Redesdale -- Camel at rest after feeding, Aden -- Sheikh Ahmed’s Mosque Aden -- TOC H. Group Aden -- Junior N.G.O’s Mess -- Steamer Point II Aden -- Steamer Point I Aden -- View from the sea, Aden -- Round the Crescent, Aden -- Caravan at rest, Aden -- Grand Royal Hotel, Aden -- Sheikh Said Tomb, Aden -- Camel Caravan, Aden -- Tanks from the high hill, Aden -- The Tanks, Aden -- The large tank full, Aden -- The Tanks general view, Aden -- Main street Crater, Aden -- Aden 1967 Signal Station -- Aden 1967 Idrus [sic] Mosque Crater -- Aden Crater 1967. Date from item, title devised from Library staff. Each photograph is captioned and dated, sizer range between 6 x 9 cm and 9 x 15 cm. Main Heritage Office General HC.HP.2014.0030 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i22091531 BIB-ID: 2364007 Show less
Sketchbooks illustrate travels and excursions done in Egypt and Sudan by the British lady Florence Attwood Mathews, the second daughter of British... Show moreSketchbooks illustrate travels and excursions done in Egypt and Sudan by the British lady Florence Attwood Mathews, the second daughter of British writer and doctor James John Garth Wilkinson (1812 – 1899). The contents of the sketchbooks stretch over the period 1898–1916, with particular emphasis on January–March 1898 and November 1913–July 1914. Volume I largely tracks Attwood-Mathews’s Nile cruise in early 1898, when she travelled on the post steamer Amenartas from Cairo to Khartoum. She was interested in the ongoing Mahdist War and the British involvement in it: one watercolor portrays six British military officers from various regiments travelling on board the Amenartas, while another shows a boat towed behind the post steamer with troops on board. Similarly, in Volume II, Attwood-Mathews chose to paint a couple of landscapes as much for their role in the conflict as any aesthetic appeal. A vista of two hilltops viewed from the Nile is described as follows: “Where the battle of Toski was fought, under these hills”. Meanwhile, the view from her hotel balcony in Khartoum is accompanied by the following caption: “Sand dunes where our troops lay the night before the battle of Omdurrman [sic]”. Atwood-Mathews’ interest in the Mahdist War continued after the end of the conflict in 1899, as evident from the many newspaper clippings pasted into Volume I, the latest dated 1916. Most of these are concerned with the events of the war and the people involved in it and include general reports (“The Soudan Crisis”, “Sirdar’s speech to the troops”), political coverage such as Sir Reginald Wingate’s succession as Governor-General of Sudan, as well as several “Romance of the Sudan” stories concerning Joseph Ohrwalder, a Roman Catholic priest held captive by Mahdists for ten years. Two of the three photographs pasted into the sketchbook show Mahdist leaders captured by British-Egyptian forces; Attwood-Mathews identifies them as Emir Abu Zeid, Emir Mahmoud, Emir Yunis al-Dikaym, and Osman, Khalifa Abdallahi’s son. The third photograph depicts a ‘plane above an Egyptian crowd. Interspersed with the watercolors, clippings, and photographs are numerous signatures, cartes-de-visite, and occasional inscriptions of British military and administrative figures based in the Nile region, including Sir Archibald Hunter, British Army General and Governor of Omdurman; Colonel E. S. Stanton, the Governor of Khartoum; the Governor-General of Sudan Sir Reginald Wingate; G. E. Matthews, Governor of the Upper Nile Province; Colonel Colin Scott-Moncrieff; and James Henry Butler Pasha, soldier and Governor of the White Nile Province. Clearly, Attwood-Mathews had both interest in and access to many of the key British colonial figures established in Egypt and Sudan in the early 20th century. However, she was undoubtedly also intrigued by the history and culture of the region in general, as evident in the collection of signatures by Egyptologists, including Howard Carter, E. A. Wallis Budge, Ernest A. T. Wallis, and A. H. Sayce. While many watercolors in Volume I depict landscapes painted from the deck of the Amenartas, there are also views of the pyramids of Giza, streets in Cairo, Nag Hammadi, and Khartoum, the Sidi Arif Mosque in Sohag, windmills and feluccas spotted along the river, as well as several studies of the everyday life of local Egyptians and Sudanese. The watercolors in Volume II, predominantly dated between late 1913 and early 1914, show a similar range in subject matter. Sunrise and sunset panoramas of the landscape near Abu Girgeh, Nag Hammadi, Denderch, and Khartoum dominate. However, there are street views of Cairo, Aswan, and Khartoum, two studies of the ancient Egyptian temples of Wadi es-Sebua and Amada in their original location prior to the relocation in 1964 due to the Aswan Dam project, as well as two pleasant portraits of local boys in Khartoum. Also included in Volume II is a loosely inserted watercolor (253 × 177 mm), dated December 1905, depicting locals at the waterfront in Beni Hasan. Title and date devised by Library staff. Sketchbooks with a contemporary beige cloth, beige closure strap, brush holder to top edge of rear boards. All watercolours with pencilled captions on the adjacent leaves. Ticket of London-based artist’s equipment shop L. Cornelissen & Son to rear pastedowns. Volume I has 4 hieroglyphs and a central design of a scarab with spread wings hand-painted to front board; it is housed in a dark blue flat back cloth box. It consists of 38 full-page watercolours, numerous autographs, mounted cartes-de-visite, letters, newspaper clippings, 3 photographs; also with 5 loosely inserted items: 2 sketches, 1 letter, 1 envelope, and 1 autographed paper slip. Volume II has 16 full-page watercolours, 2 portraits, and 1 sketch. Main Heritage Display General HC.GM.2017.0003.01 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24384240 BIB-ID: 2555496 Show less
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Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.02 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174496 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Armies--Officers, Armies--Officers--Photographs, Railroads, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arab countries--Palestine
Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.01 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174435 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less