The sources used in this project

Archival Sources

Dorset History Centre, Dorchester, United Kingdom

    • Drawings

Around 1,700 drawings, sketches and watercolours by W.J. Bankes, W.H. Beechey, A.M. Linant de Bellefonds, A. Ricci, and H. Salt. Reference number DHC, D/BKL Folders V-XXI.

    • Linant, Maps

A series of three maps of Nubia and Sudan, from Aswan to Sinnar. Reference number DHC, D/BKL XXI.C.8-10. Accessible here:

Kingston Lacy House, Wimborne Minster, United Kingdom

    • 12 drawings by W.J. Bankes, W.H. Beechey, A. Linant de Bellefonds and A. Ricci

View of the interior of the Second Pillared Hall, looking North; al-Dirr; W.H. Beechey; ink, colour wash on thick paper; 340x495 (DHC, D/BKL, Drawing X.D.25)

Published Sources

    • Linant, Journal (An account of his journey in Nubia and Sudan of 1821-22)

Shinnie, Margaret (ed.). Linant de Bellefonds. Journal d’un Voyage à Meroe dans les années 1821 et 1822. Sudan Antiquities Service: Khartoum, 1958.

    • Ricci, From Siena to Nubia (An account of Ricci's journey in Nubia (1818-19) and Sudan 1821-22)

Salvoldi, Daniele (ed.). From Siena to Nubia. Alessandro Ricci in Egypt and Sudan, 1817-22. The American University in Cairo Press: Cairo-New York, 2018.

  • Ricci, HJ4 8C/85 (A short travelogue of his first Nubian journey in 1818-19)

Usick, Patricia. "Not the Travel Journal of Alessandro Ricci." In Studies in Egyptian Antiquities: A Tribute to T.G.H. James, edited by Vivian W. Davies, 115-21. London: The British Museum Press, 1999.