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Explorers on the Nile

Chris Beetles Gallery, Ryder Street, London

27 May - 7 June 2025

An exhibition of pristine watercolours from a recently discovered album; painted on the spot during a luxurious trip down the Nile in 1890.

In January 1889, Emily Meynell Ingram, a wealthy widow of Temple Newsam, Yorkshire, travelled to Egypt. Her party included her brother, the Hon Frederick Wood and his wife, Lady Mary Wood. For two months they meandered down the Nile on their dahabiya or floating houseboat, the Horus. Both Emily and Mary were talented amateur watercolourists and they carefully recorded the evocative sights that enthralled them on shore and river as they journeyed to Luxor.
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