BEAMONT (Revd. William John, 1828-1868, Fellow of Trinity College and Vicar of St. Michael's, Cambridge, Hon. Secretary of the Cambridge School of Art) and HEKEKYAN BEY (Joseph, 1807-1875, Armenian Egyptologist, the first to use geological stratigraphy in excavation)

Printed Ticket headed 'Cambridge School of Art Excursion to Barrington' (southwest of Cambridge), giving admission "to Amusements in Grounds and to Tea in School at Six o'Clock", with details of train times and fares, round Beamont's name is handwriting so as to read "in W.J. Beamont's rooms", with another note in his hand "We met him & his wife in Aug 1862" and the message by Hekekyan on the verso, 2½" x 3½", 3rd July

Three handwritten lines on the verso read 'Hekekyan Bey, ya sitti' (an Egyptian Arabic phrase), and 'O my lady' (its meaning in English). Letters between him and Beamont are in the British Library. Beamont had travelled in Egypt and Palestine, and in 1854 was in Jerusalem helping teach intended missionaries to Abyssinia to use Arabic. He was chiefly responsible for founding the Cambridge School of Art in 1858.

Item Date:  1861

Stock No:  54927      £125

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