Item Hoskins MSS 1.52 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Siwa

1 watercolour

View of the remains of the Amun temple at Umm-Ebeida, Sîwa Oasis:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 15.4 by 10.5 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Based on von Minutoli, M. 1824. Reise zum Tempel des Jupiter Ammon in der Libyschen Wüste und nach Ober-Aegypten in den Jahren 1820 und 1821. Berlin : Rücker, 1824-1827 (OEB 145294), plate vii.
• 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 xx [lithograph by A. Picken from von Minutoli's original drawing]).
• 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.312.