Item Hoskins MSS 2.48 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour and Drawing - Gebel Barkal

1 watercolour and drawing

Section of the large rock-temple of Amun ('Typhonium', B300) at Gebel Barkal, through temple from pylon to central sanctuary:

• watercolour/pencil/ink drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left side] 'P 22' (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom left side] 'Temple partly excavated out of the rock Gebel el Birkel L B -'. (pencil note)
• [on mount] '[...] Gebel el Birkel'. (ink note)
• 28.7 by 19.8 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Creases to all corners
• 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, pl. 22.
• 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.208.