Item Hoskins MSS 2.45 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour and Drawing - Gebel Barkal

1 watercolour and drawing

Scene from the chapel of pyramid 5 at Gebel Barkal on two separate sheets of paper, showing a seated prince, his name lost, with fan bearers and a winged goddess standing behind his chair, possibly Hathor. To the right are rows of various deities and offering bearers carrying goods for the tomb owner. This section of the scene includes painted details in watercolour:

• watercolour/pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left side] 'P 29' (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom left side] 'Gibel el Birkel p 1' (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom right side] 'Gibel el Birkel p 2 - to be reduced 1/5th'. (pencil note)
• [left] pencil drawing 31.5 by 27.8 cm, [right] pencil drawing/watercolour 21.2 by 28.3 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Creases to all corners
• Heavily discoloured, wrinkling across centre

• 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, pl. 29.
• 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.206.