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George A. Hoskins Watercolour and Drawing - Gebel Barkal

Plan of the pyramids and wider northern group pyramid-field at Gebel Barkal:

  • watercolour and pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] '9 V p 253 - Pyramids of Napata'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom right corner] 'montagna B 6586. 02 8756 The letters must be inserted & [...] also the letters [...]'. (pencil notes)
  • 41.5 by 27.0 cm

George A. Hoskins Print - Stela of Niankh-tet

Egyptian stela of Niankh-tet from the necropolis at Saqqara, probably of late 3rd / early 4th Dynasty:

  • print
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] 'G. W. Hoskins Esqu [in pencil] B Cranwell. Sc'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'Ancient Egyptian monument, with figures, Inscriptions, &c, part of which are beautifully cut in relief and part in Intaglio. It is supposed to be historical. The subtance is marble - a circumstance of very rare occurrence for a monument of this kind. Another is perhaps not in the Kingdom. Size, length 2ft, 5in, breadth 1ft. 11, thickness 10 inches. It forms part of the extensive and choice Egyptian collections in the possession of J. Sams. 1837.' (ink note)
  • 41.3 by 26.6 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Thebes. West Bank

View of the landscape of the west bank at Thebes during the Nile inundation, towards the right side in the distance are the two colossi of Memnon partially submerged in the water:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Nº2'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Nº2 Medinet Abou View of the western mountain & south end of the plain of Thebes - taken during the time of the inundation of the Nile'. (ink note)
  • 31.6 by 23.2 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Thebes. West Bank. Medinet Habu

View across the great temple at Medinet Habu with several brick buildings in the foreground. At the top right corner are two small drawings of funerary cones, one for a woman named Merytptah and another for Amenhotep who bears the title 'Royal butler, pure of hands':

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on mount, bottom left edge] 'Medinet Abou'. (ink note)
  • 34.2 by 22.5 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Thebes. West Bank. Asasif. Late Period tombs

View of the remains of several Late Period tombs in the Asasif area on the west bank of Thebes, including Montuemhat (TT34), Harwa (TT37), Padineit (TT197), and Pabasa (TT279):

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left corner] 'View of the brick propylons leading to the Temple of Athor - with foreground buried deep in the ground ruins of a tomb -'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Valley of the Hassaseef - brick propylons - tombs in the foreground'. (ink note)
  • 34.4 by 24.0 cm

George A. Hoskins Drawing - Thebes. West Bank. Ramesseum

View of the first court area of the Ramesseum on the west bank at Thebes, including the first pylon and to the left side the remains of a toppled colossal statue of Ramesses II:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top left corner] 'Memmonium Nº.2'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'fragment of the colossus statue - Memnonium'. (ink note)
  • 28.6 by 22.5 cm
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