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A view showing W.D. on the deck of the 'Indraghiri' looking through a telescope towards Gebel Musa (not visible).

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...

Scope and Contents 219 x 156 mm. A view looking towards the summit of Gebel Moosa from a plateau on lower ground. Frith comments: 'The view is taken from the high irregular plateau from which rises the loftiest summit ... The perpendicular forms of the granite of the rounded height, utterly bared by the storms, rise grandly from the base, covered, like the lower region in the foreground, with washed-down fragments. Immediately before us is a deserted tract, among the loose stones of which grow prickly...