Collection Context: patrons, donors, collectors

A portrait of the Great Belzoni by Jan Adam Kruseman (1804–62)

The Great Belzoni (1778–1823)

A detail from La Somme le Roi, c.1300

Philip the Fair

Portrait of a Lady, by Peter Lely

Sir Peter Lely (1618–80)

A dish from Isabella D'Este's service collection

Isabella D'Este

Tarquin and Lucretia, painted by Titian commissioned by Philip II

Philip II

François I, king of France, Louvre (Public Domain image from Wikipedia)

Francis I of France

A Portrait of Mary Tudor

Mary Tudor

Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton, by Peter Oliver

Henry Wriothesley

Pietro da Cortona - Portrait of Urban VIII (ca. 1624-1627) - Google Art Project

Pope Urban VIII

An Allegorical Monument to Sir Isaac Newton, by Pittoni and Valeriani

Owen McSwiny

Kaiserin Katharina II. v. Russland, Tochter v. C.A. Anhalt-Zerb

Catherine II, Empress of Russia

William Blake, by John Linnell

John Linnell

Wallis Budge

Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge

Stephen Glanville on EES excavations

Stephen Glanville

Flinders Petrie at Abydos

William Matthew Flinders Petrie

A portrait photo of James Quibell

James Quibell

A fragment of papyrus

Greville John Chester

Portrait of Ricketts and Shannon, National Portrait Gallery

Charles S. Ricketts (1863–1937) & Charles H. Shannon (1866–1931)

Edward Towry Whyte's catalogue page

Edward Towry Whyte

Relief fragment

(Major) Robert Grenville 'John' Gayer-Anderson

Sandstone temple relief of Domitian (E.1.2003)

(Sir) Robert Hyde Greg

Limestone relief from the temple of Pepy II at Saqqara (E.182.1939)

George Davis Hornblower

The granite head of Senwosret III (E.37.1930)

Frederick William Green

Coffin set of Nespawashefyt

Barnard Hanbury and George Waddington

Herbert Thompson by Alma-Tadema

Sir Henry Francis Herbert Thompson

Petrie at Abydos

Egyptology societies and institutions

Votive relief, with three rows of dedicants or votaries

Edward Daniel Clarke

A portrait of John Disney

John Disney

Lt. Col. William Martin Leake (1777-1860) F.R.S., LL.D.

William Martin Leake

A detail from the Pashley sarcophagus

Robert Pashley

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