68. Vyse (1840–2), 1: 199.
69. Vyse (1840–2), 1: 200.
70. Vyse (1840–2), 2: 33.
71. Quoted in Tyldesley (2005): 110.
72. Vyse (1840–2), 2: 34.
73. Vyse (1840–2), 1: 236.
74. Vyse (1840–2), 1: 274.
75. Usick and Manley (2007).
76. Laws and Regulations of the Egyptian Society, Alexandria, no date, 1; quoted in Reid (2002): 49.
77. Wilkinson to Ada Lovelace, 18 May 1842, quoted in Thompson (1992): 169.
78. David Roberts (1796–1864) was the first professional artist to travel in Egypt, spending the winter of 1838–9 visiting and sketching the ancient monuments along the Nile, as well as the mosques of Cairo. During his stay, he corresponded with Hay and rented the house that had belonged to Osman Effendi, while Thomas Pettigrew unrolled one of his mummies in Roberts’s London studio. On leaving Egypt, Roberts wrote: ‘Well, I have no doubt all will end well – then for home with one of the richest folios that ever left the East. It is worth the hazard’ (quoted in Sim, 1984: 159). Indeed it was. His earlier training as a set designer gave his work a theatrical flair, while technological advances allowed him to print his images in rich colours. They were, and have remained, the most popular, evocative and influential paintings of Egypt ever made.
79. Thompson (1992).
FOUR:
The Prussian project
1. Lepsius to Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, December 1840, quoted in Freier (1988): 98.
2. Reid (2002): 43.
3. Clark (2006).
4. Baron d’Haussez to Charles X, 25 November 1829, quoted in Lebas (1839): 15.
5. Thompson (1992): 75.
6. Lepsius to Friedrich Wilhelm IV, December 1840, quoted in Freier (1988): 98.
7. Lepsius to Eichhorn, 4 March 1841, quoted in Freier (1988): 101.
8. Lepsius to Eichhorn, 24 May 1842, quoted in Freier (1988): 103.
9. Lepsius (1853): 6, author’s preface.
10. Conradus Leemans (1809–93), director of the museum of antiquities in Leiden, and the first Egyptologist to publish a systematic catalogue of the contents of a major European collection.
11. Quoted in Freier (1988): 102.
12. Lepsius (1853): 12.
13. Lepsius to Eichhorn, 1843, quoted in Freier (1988): 110.
14. Lepsius (1853): 6, author’s preface.
15. Ebers (1887): 140.
16. Lepsius to Graf Usedom, 23 October 1842, quoted in Freier (1988): 110.
17. His request was clearly taken seriously: just a week after his letter to Usedom, Wagner was recalled from Constantinople and posted to Alexandria as Prussian consul-general, with the approval of both the sultan and the pasha. He arrived in January 1843.
18. Lepsius (1853): 40.
19. Kröger (1991): 19.
20. Wilkinson (1843): 202.
21. Wilkinson (1843): 203.
22. Quoted in Sattin (1988): 86.
23. Lepsius (1853): 47, 49 (Letter from Cairo, 16 October 1842).
24. Lepsius (1853): 57.
25. Wilkinson to an unidentified correspondent, quoted in Thompson (1992): 238 n.33.
26. Lepsius (1853): 13.
