We kick off the new Manchester Ancient Egypt Society season on Monday 11th September with a look at the more comical aspects of visiting Egypt!

Free to MAES members. Guests welcome via Eventbrite

11 September   ZOOM   Lee Young

The Lighter Side of Egypt with the Art of Lance Thackeray

Lance Thackeray was an English illustrator, known especially for his comic sporting illustrations involving billiards and golf and for his many humorous postcards. When he was over 30 he spent some winters in Egypt and produced humorous sketches which he collected in a book, The Light Side of Egypt (1908). In this lecture we will concentrate on his time in Egypt where he would gently poke fun at the tourists of his time. We will also look at the tourist industry as a whole in Egypt.

Lee Young is an independent researcher and lecturer in Egyptology specialising in artists and epigraphers in Egypt. She has studied the works of Howard Carter and Lance Thackeray (amongst others), and has a particular interest in bringing the greatly overlooked women artists to the public’s attention. Lee worked for several years at the Griffith Institute, part of Oxford University, cataloguing the watercolour paintings held there and doing the same for the Egypt Exploration Society. She also transcribed all 415 letters of Myrtle Broome held by the Griffith and is the author of ‘An Artist in Abydos: The Life and Letters of Myrtle Broome’, published by AUC Press.