Item Hoskins MSS 1.141 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Wad Ban Naga, Sudan

1 watercolour

Plan of the town site of Wad Ban Naga (Meroe, modern day Sudan):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'v 8 - p 157 - Plan of the site of a town now called Abou Naga'. (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'V 26 L B'. (ink note)
• 37.4 by 28.0 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Discoloured around edges

• Published in Hoskins, G. A. 1835. Travels in Ethiopia, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile: Exhibiting the State of that Country, and Its Various Inhabitants, Under the Dominion of Mohammed Ali; and Illustrating the Antiquities, Arts, and History of the Ancient Kingdom of Meroe. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, fig on p. 114.
• Published online on the Griffith Institute website: 'The watercolours and drawings by George Alexander Hoskins in the Archive of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford' (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4hoskins_opening_page.html).

• TopBib vii.263.