12019-05-01T13:51:33-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12332307plain2019-05-14T23:54:40-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Anna Hewes, Jane Stanford's sister, may have influenced the latter's interest in Egyptian travel. Hewes visited the country with her husband David Hewes in 1890 during an eighteen-month long grand tour taken after their 1889 wedding. The couple made the acquaintance of Émile Brugsch, who helped them acquire Egyptian antiquities as souvenirs of their trip. Anna Hewes bequeathed an Egyptian collection to Stanford's University Museum upon her death in 1892. It included pieces acquired from her own 1890 trip and the trip David Hewes took with his first wife, Matilda Hewes, in 1877.
12019-05-01T13:54:07-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12David HewesEmilia Porubcin5plain2019-05-08T18:15:31-07:00David Hewes took two trips to Egypt: one with his first wife, Matilda Hewes, in 1877; and one with his second wife, Anna Hewes (Jane Stanford's sister), in 1890. He collected antiquities during both stays. In 1877, it was with the help of the Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch. In 1890, it was the Egyptologist's brother, Émile Brugsch, who assisted Hewes in finding choice pieces for his collection. Émile Brugsch apparently first wrote to Jane Stanford in 1890 on David Hewes' advice and later assisted her in her own Egyptian collecting.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
12019-05-01T13:53:48-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Matilda C. Gray HewesEmilia Porubcin6plain2019-05-08T18:06:59-07:00Matilda Hewes was David Hewe's first wife. Matilda and David visited Egypt after they were married in 1877 as part of a two and a half year grand tour. While there, the couple met the influential early Egyptologist Heinrich Brugsch, who helped them acquire Egyptian antiquities as souvenirs of their trip. After she died, at least some of Gray Hewes' Egyptian artifacts passed to David Hewes' second wife, Anna Hewes, who was Jane Stanford's sister. Anna Hewes bequeathed her Egyptian collection to Stanford University when she died.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
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12019-05-01T13:53:48-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Matilda C. Gray Hewes6plain2019-05-08T18:06:59-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12