Item Hoskins MSS 1.15 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - el-Kharga

1 drawing

View of the inner gateway and portico of the Amun temple at Hibis:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] '72, plate 2. Temple of el Khargeh - Pylon & facade of the temple of el Khargeh'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Temple of Khargeh - Oasis of Thebes'. (pencil note)
• 32.4 by 23.1 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Discolouration at corners

• Published in Hoskins, G. A. 1837. Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert: with an account, ancient and modern, of the oasis of Amun, and the other oases now under the dominion of the pasha of Egypt. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman (OEB 141747), plate iii.
• 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. 277.