Item Hoskins MSS 1.159 - George A. Hoskins Print - Nubia

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Reference code

Hoskins MSS 1.159

Title

George A. Hoskins Print - Nubia

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 printer's proof

Context area

Name of creator

Content and structure area

Scope and content

View of the remains of a fortress in Nubia:

  • print
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'L. Bandoni. del Branston. sc.' (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'Ruin far Ethiopia. Fort'. (pencil note)
  • 19.8 by 14.4 cm

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

  • Dark marks in corners

Allied materials area

Publication note

  • 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. 216.
  • 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).