The homeplace of a British lord with Ancient Egyptian doodads sprinkled around. Not as odd as the lord who managed to illegally purchase a sarcophagus that had been buried in a desert tomb so he could be interred in it later, however. Imagery from the privately published 1851 work “Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell.” Written by W. H. Smyth and found in a back corner of the Internet Archive.

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Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Title page. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/n10/mode/1up
Hartwell House, Reduced from a large view painted in 1749. James Basire, Engraver. Image 61, Plate III of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/n61/mode/1up
Lees of Cheshire (left) – Lees of Hartwell (right). Coat of arms. James Basire, engraver. Page 98, Image 126 of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/98/mode/1up

The Muniment Room at Hartwell House. James Basire, engraver.Page 101, Image 128 of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/101/mode/1up
Three statues carved in oak (out of a total of twenty-four) that decorate the staircase leading to the main apartments at Hartwell House. James Basire, engraver. Page 111 image 140 of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/111/mode/1up
Two Ancient Egyptian mummies included as illustrations although it appears from the text that these two mummies were not in Dr. Lee’s Hartwell House Collection. James Basire, engraver. Page 170 image 199 of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/170/mode/1up
Ancient Egyptian women wearing headresses (left) – female of the Tlascaltecas (Mexican) right. James Basire, engraver. Page 182 image 211 of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/182/mode/1up

The Egyptian Structure over the Hartwell Fountain. After a drawing by Cleghorn. James Basire, engraver. Page 222 image 259 of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/n259/mode/1up

ENCKE’S COMET. As seen at its re-appearance on the 22nd of September 1848, At the Hartwell Observatory. James Basire, engraver. Page 385 of Ædes Hartwellianæ: or, Notices of the manor and mansion of Hartwell. Captain W. H. Smyth, Royal Navy, author. Printed in London in 1851 for private circulation by Jobn Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age via https://archive.org/details/deshartwellianor00smyt/page/n385/mode/1up

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