Item Hoskins MSS 2.11 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Thebes. West Bank

1 drawing

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

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Discoloured around edges
• Creases to top left corner and bottom right corner

• 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 ii2.449.