Genre/Subject Matter:This landscape view of Aden was sketched from on board ship. While most of the scene is rendered in watercolour, the buildings along the shoreline and the white sails and hulls of the small craft at sail or anchored along the shore are picked out in bodycolour.A flag immediately right and below centre along the shoreline is likely intended to show the union jack flag.Inscriptions:Verso of previous folio, in ink: ‘Aden, 2d Janr 1880’Recto, in pencil, upper right corner: ‘27’1 watercolour drawing on watercolour paper, bound into volumeDimensions:139 x 228 mmMaterials:Watercolour and bodycolour on watercolour paperCondition:Light surface dirt coats the recto and verso, with staining in particular along the fore-edge.
Distinctive Features:Watercolour, pen and ink and pencil on paper.The sketch drawn by Lieutenant Michael Houghton showing the coastal topography of the Musseldom Island [Jazīrat Musandam, Oman] from the west. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows four rocky islands inscribed: ‘Great Quoin’, ‘Small Quoin’, ‘Lump I[slan]d’ and ‘Musseldom Island’ with latitude reported.1 watercolour viewMaterials: Pen and ink with wash on paperDimensions: 50 x 350 mm
Dimensions of original: 62 x 42 cmDimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Reign of Hatshepsut, Dyn. XVIII, 1497-1475 B.C.Technical details: Low-relief sculpture on limestone blocks patched with gypsum. The colour is applied over a thin priming, and the grey-blue background is typical of the period. Orange varnish is seen on the skirt, head-dress, and some hieroglyphs.Technique: Tempera on paper
Dimensions of original: Repr0duced t0 full scale.Dimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Early Middle Kingdom, probably Dyn. XI, about 2100- 2000 B.C.Technical details: Painted on the interior of a wooden coffin. The body-colour was applied very thinly and no background wash is visible. There was probably a priming to prevent the colours sinking into the wood.Technique: Tempera on paper
Dimensions of original: 76 x 39 cmDimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Reign of Tuthmosis IV, Dyn. XVIII, 1420-1411 B.C.Technical details: Painted on fine plaster over a coarser layer containing straw. A wash of white, which formed the actual painting surface, has become cream-coloured through the action of smoke.Technique: Tempera on paper
Dimensions of original: 22 x 36 cmDimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Reign of Tuthmosis IV, Dyn. XVIII, 1420-1411 B.C.Technical details: Painted with a white background on buff plaster superimposed upon mud mixed with straw. As ahnost all blacks have perished, more red outline is now visible than was intended.Technique: Tempera on paper
Dimensions of original: 69 x 29 cmDimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Reign of Tuthmosis IV (?), Dyn. XVIII, 1420-1411 B.C.Technical details: Painted with a blue-grey background on white plaster over an underlay of mud and straw. The work\xadmanship is rather coarse, and the outlines lack the clean precision of the best work of the period.Technique: Tempera on paper
Dimensions of original: 21 x 41 cmDimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Reign of Tuthmosis IV, Dyn. XVIII, 1420-1411 B.C.Technical details: Painted on white plaster over coarser buff, which in tum is above a layer of mud and straw.Technique: Tempera on paper
Dimensions of original: 81 x 44 cmDimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Reign of Tutankhamun, Dyn. XVIII, 1357-1349 B.C.Technical details: As under Plates LXXIX and LXXX. Part of the nose of the charioteer, as well as the head and shoulders of the groom, have been restored from an early tracing.Technique: Tempera on paper
Dimensions of original: 71 x 42 cmDimensions of print: 60 x 48 cmink on paper (photomechanical lithograph) with hand-applied color (pochoir)Style period: Reign of Hatshepsut, Dyn. XVIII, 1497-1475 B.C.Technical details: Painted on a thin coating of fine plaster over good limestone. The blue-grey background is characteristic of this reign.Technique: Tempera on paper