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February 9 - March 8, 1930

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1.1.006

Scope and Contents

Watercolor of the Temple Deir El Bahari; description of marketplace scenes; description of a functioning potter’s wheel; details about an elaborate dinner at the home of an army officer and German consul, a friend of Mr. Capart’s; account of a dream, annotated with watercolors; painting of the entrance to the temple in Thebes; arrival at Assuan; sketch of the Temple of Kom Ombo; arrival in village of Bichareen; description of a visit to an 8th or 9th century Coptic (Kopt) church in the Libyan Desert; details about being lifted through six different locks to get through a dam in the Nile; description of a visit to the caves of the Anchorites (holy hermits); description of passing a ruined Roman city, and a city of the dead (tombs); passed through the town of Deroua; arrival in Wadi halfa in Sudan, Gutmann’s final destination; visit to the Castle of Ibrahim and Abusimbel, a temple of Ramses II; small watercolors from a visit to the Temple of the Sun; letter written in script to Elizabeth on stationary from the Hotel Vouillemont in Paris.

Dates

  • February 9 - March 8, 1930

Creator

Extent

From the Series: 0.1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Brooklyn Museum Archives Repository

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