Ba Collection

Captive Andromache, c1886. Artist: Frederic Leighton
Captive Andromache, c1886. Painting housed in the City of Manchester Art Galleries, Manchester. From The Worlds Greatest Paintings, edited by T. Leman Hare. [Odhams Press Ltd, London, 1934]

Ba, Egypt, probably New Kingdom (1550 - 1070 BCE). Creator: Unknown
Ba, Egypt, probably New Kingdom (1550 - 1070 BCE)

Funerary Stela, 5th-8th century CE. Creator: Unknown
Funerary Stela, 5th-8th century CE

Ba Bird (image 1 of 2), 2061-333 BCE. Creator: Unknown
Ba Bird (image 1 of 2), 2061-333 BCE

Tessa at Home. From George Eliots Romola, 1862-63, (1923). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Tessa at Home. From George Eliots Romola, 1862-63, (1923). Romola (1862-63) is a historical novel by George Eliot set in the fifteenth century

The Bath of Psyche, c1890. Painting held in the Tate Britain, London. From Penroses Pictorial Annual 1903-4, edited by William Gamble. [A. W. Penrose & Co. London, 1903-4]

Madame Talleyrand, ca. 1808. Creator: William Dickinson
Madame Talleyrand, ca. 1808

Portrait of Michel Louis Etienne, Comte Regnault de Saint-Jean d Angely, 1812

Belisarius, 1806. Creator: Auguste Gaspard Louis Desnoyers
Belisarius, 1806

Bull Run, 1861-62. Creators: Andrew Joseph Russell, George N. Barnard, Tim O Sullivan
Bull Run, 1861-62. Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady

The Ba-bird pectoral, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Jaguar SS saloon of BA Hickman competing in the South Wales Auto Club Welsh Rally
SS Jaguar Saloon 1937 Vehicle Reg. No. ACA947. Event Entry No: 19. Driver: Hickman, B.A. Place: S.W.A.C. Welsh Rally. Date: 30.6-3.7.37

BA Davey in his AC at the JCC 200 Mile Race, Brooklands, Surrey, 1921. Artist: Bill Brunell
AC 1496 cc. Event Entry No: 21. Driver: Davey, B.A. Retired with a seized camshaft after 32 laps. Place: Brooklands. J.C.C. 200-mile Race. Date: 22.10.21

Triumph of BA Roy competing in the MCC Exeter Trial, 1930. Artist: Bill Brunell
Triumph 1930 832 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. GK70. Event Entry No: 112 Driver: Roy, B.A. Award: Gold. Place: M.C.C. Exeter Trial. Date: 26/27.12.30

Eucharis, c1863, (1912). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Eucharis, c1863, (1912). From Bibbys Annual 1912, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1912]

Helen of Troy, 1865, (1917). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Helen of Troy, 1865, (1917). From Bibbys Annual 1917, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1917]

Female Study, c1897, (1897). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Female Study, c1897, (1897). From The Studio Volume 9. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1897]

Study for Rizpah, c1870, (1897). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Study for Rizpah, c1870, (1897). From The Studio Volume 9. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1897]

Studies for Wedded, 1882, (1897). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Studies for Wedded, 1882, (1897). From The Studio Volume 9. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1897]

Study for The Arts of Industry as Applied to War, c1870, (1897). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Study for The Arts of Industry as Applied to War, c1870, (1897). A study for the fresco, The Arts of Industry as Applied to War. From The Studio Volume 9. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1897]

A Bookplate, 1894, (1894). Artist: Robert Anning Bell
A Bookplate, 1894, (1894). A bookplate designed for Frederic Leighton (1830-1896). From The Studio Volume 3. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1894]

Perseus and Andromeda, 1891, (1918). Artist: Frederic Leighton
Perseus and Andromeda, 1891, (1918). Painting held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. From Bibbys Annual 1918, edited by Joseph Bibby. [The Priory Publishing Press, Liverpool, 1917]

Tobit and the Angel, c1886. Artist: Frederic Leighton
Tobit and the Angel, c1886. From The Studio Volume 10. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1897]

Frederic Leighton, (1830-1896), 1st Baron Leighton, famous painter, 1894-1907. Leighton was an English painter and sculptor whose works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matters

Scene from the Book of the Dead of Any, Egyptian, c1275 BC, (c1900-1920). In the centre are the scales used for weighing the heart, attended by Anubis, the jackal-headed god of embalming

Four industrial reformers: Colbert, Turgot, Arkwright and Watt, (1903). Jean Baptiste Colbert, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Richard Arkwright and James Watt

The back of a gold winged ba amulet, Ptolemaic period, Egypt, 4th-1st century BC. According to Ancient Egyptian belief, ba was one of the five parts of the soul

Egyptian painted shabti-box of Anhai, a musician priestess of Amun. The deceased and her soul-bird (Ba) receive water from Nut, the goddess of the sycamore tree. From the British Museums collection

Egyptian detail of the funerary stele of a singer in the temple of Amon
Detail of the funerary stele of a singer in the temple of Amon. In the upper panel the decased stands before Osiris, Judge of the dead

Egyptian papyrus with a depiction of the weighing of the heart of the decased, Ani, on the left against the feather of truth on the right by the jackal-headed god Anubis

Egyptian relief showing a dead woman and Hathor: the dead woman and her soul-bird (Ba) receive refreshment from Hathor in the Sycamore tree

Painting of a woman and her Ba (soul-bird) on a shabti-box. The pair receive thirst-quenching resfreshment from the Goddess of the Sycamore tree, Isis-Hathor

Egyptian papyrus depicting two soul-birds (Bas), 13th century BC
Egyptian papyrus depicting two soul-birds (Bas) from the papyrus of Ani, representing Ani and his wife. From the British Museums collection, 13th century BC

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