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Photograph album collecting views of Sinai taken by Sergeant James McDonald, photographer and member of the Royal Engineers. He was part to the 1868-169 scientific expedition lead of Charles Wilson (1836-1905), appointed by the Ordnance Survey (OS) - the national mapping agency for Great Britain. James McDonald had taken an important series of architectural studies of Jerusalem in 1864, as part of an earlier Ordnance Survey expedition. During the expedition to Sinai, McDonald produced at least 264 listed photographs, although only 153 were published in the three volumes of the official account of the survey. The additional photographs not included in these volumes could be purchased separately at the Ordnance Survey Office in Southampton. In addition to his known landscapes, McDonald made a number of portraits and type studies of Bedouins and inhabitants of St. Catherine Convent in Sinai., Distant View of Jebel Serbal from the Palm Grove, Wadi Feiran ; Jebel Serbal (probably Mount Paran) from right bank of Wady Aleyat ; Jebel Serbal from the Upper Palms in Wadi Aleijat ; View from Summit of Jebel Serbal, looking North Ras Sufsafeh from North-Eastern End of the Plain Er Rahah ; View from Summit of Jebel Serbal, looking North-east. Desert of El Tih in distance ; Ras Sufsafeh from the Plain Er Rahah ; Plain of Er Rahah from base of Ras Sufsafeh ; Plain of Er Rahah from Cleft of Ras Sufsafeh ; Aaron’s Hill with Jebel Sona in the background ; Ras Sufsafeh from Wady ed Deir ; Jebel Musa from Aaron’s Hill with Camp of Ordnance Survey. Party [sic], November 21st 1868 ; Jebel Musa- Sufsafeh and Wady ed Deir from Aaaron’s Hill ; Gardens of Convent St. Katherine and Plain Er Rahah ; Wady ed Deir and Convent of St. Katherine with Plain Er Rahah ; Convent St. Katherine, Jebel Musa ; Summit of Jebel Musa from ed Deir with solitary Cypress ; The Cypress and Elijah’s Chapel with summit Jebel Musa ; Moses’ Well, Jebel Musa ; Summit of Jebel Musa from Ras Sufsafeh ; Wady Sebaiyeh from summit of Jebel Musa ; Jebel ed Deir from summit of Jebel Musa ; West View from the Olive Grove of the Convent El Arbain., Title and date devised by Library staff. The album is housed in a 19th-century blue half-calf, gilt by the bookbinder Edmund Worrall of Birmingham (with his ticket on front pastedown) and it has an upper cover lettered in gilt. The album includes 23 pages and 2 folding panoramas backed on linen. Each photograph is captioned on the mount in ink., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2014.0034, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i22678219, BIB-ID: 2409658 |
