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George A. Hoskins Drawing - Thebes. West Bank. Unidentified Tomb

Relief scene showing the tomb owner and his wife seated before a large table piled with delicately illustrated offerings of various food types and other goods. There are several faint lines across the top of the page indicating the proportional grids. The scene comes from an unidentified Theban tomb on the west bank:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner of the paper] '[...] late 2 Gourneh'. (pencil note)
  • 41.4 by 29.6 cm

George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Island of Argo Monuments

Colossal statue of the Meroitic king Natakamani from the northern area of the island of Argo (Arko) in Sudan. It lies upon the ground in two clear breaks at the torso:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left corner] 'map D -'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom left edge] 'G. A H Colossal statue in the Isle of Argos'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom left edge] 'P 33'. (ink note)
  • 39.5 by 23.4 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Meroe

Relief scene from the south wall of the chapel area of the pyramid of Arqamani (North Group N.7) at Meroe, showing a priest making offerings of incense and libations before a large seated figure of the king on the right side, with several rows of various deities in between them. Below this is a row of detailed offerings and another smaller priestly figure, and along the bottom edge of the relief scene are serpents holding knives:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'P 71'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, top right corner] 'plate 2 [...] reduced'. (pencil note)
  • 38.8 by 26.0 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Meroe

Relief scene from the north wall of the chapel area of the pyramid of Queen Kanarta-Sar (South Group S.4) at Meroe, showing the seated queen on the left side, before a row of offering bearers and below an image of Anubis:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left edge] 'P 18 G A H'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom right edge] 'not reduced'. (pencil note)
  • 42.0 by 27.1 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Luxor Temple

Base of the east obelisk near the pylon of Luxor temple, including a partial line of hieroglyphs featuring the royal titles and a row of four baboons with the king's cartouches:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Base of the Obelisk - Luxor'. (ink note)
  • 30.2 by 24.2 cm

George A. Hoskins Watercolour and Drawing - Nuri

View of the pyramid field at Nuri (Bellal) in Sudan, at the right side of the three pyramids in the background are faint notes in pencil of the measurements for each structure:

  • watercolour/pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left corner] 'P 32 Pyramids of Nouri G A H'. (pencil note)
  • 28.8 by 23.2 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Meroe

Plan of the north group pyramid-field at Meroe:

  • ink drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left edge] 'L B Plate 6'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'Plan (crossed out) The principal group of the pyramids of Meroe'. (pencil note)
  • 54.5 by 40.0 cm

George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Botanical Drawing

The flowering plant Senna, also known as Alexandrian senna:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on paper, bottom left edge] 'P4'. (ink note)
  • [on paper, bottom left edge] 'L B P 4 3'. (pencil note)
  • [on paper, bottom right edge] 'I have [...] this drawn [...] [...] for some remarks on it - Senna'. (pencil note)
  • 12.1 by 17.2 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Karnak

View of the standing obelisks of Tuthmosis I and Hatshepsut in the foreground, and the remains of the fourth pylon at Karnak temple:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left corner] (faded pencil note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Obelisks great temple Carnak -'. (ink note)
  • 33.4 by 23.1 cm
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