[342] Ibid. plates 71, 76, 78, 91.
[343] Ibid. pl. 154.
[344] We place this portrait of Taia in our chapter on painting because its colour is exceptionally delicate and carefully managed (see Prisse, text, p. 421). The original is, however, in very low relief, so low that it hardly affects the colour values.
[345] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part iii. pl. 40, cf. pl. 116.
[346] Ibid. pl. 117.
[347] See the Ethiopians in the painting from the tomb of Rekmara, which is reproduced in Wilkinson, vol. i. plate 2.
[348] Lepsius, Denkmæler, part iii. pl. 216.
[349] The materials for this plate were borrowed from the Description de l'Égypte. In the complete copies of that work the plates were coloured by hand, with extreme care, after those fine water-colours the most important of which are now in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale. The colours thus applied are far nearer the truth than those of the chromo-lithographs in more modern publications.
[350] Prisse, Histoire de l'Art Égyptien, text, p. 424.
[351] John Kenrick, Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, vol. i. pp. 269, 270.