Item Hoskins MSS 2.20 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Tumbos

1 watercolour

Colossal striding statue of a king, possibly Taharqa or Tanwetamani, found in the grey granite quarry area of Tumbos in northern Sudan. It lies upon the ground in amongst various pieces of rubble:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Quarry G A H p 9 vol II V 14 Quarries of Tumbos'. (pencil note)
• 27.3 by 20.5 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Wrinkling of paper along top edge
• 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. 218.
• 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.174.