Item Hoskins MSS 2.57 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour and Drawing - Nuri

1 watercolour and drawing

View of the pyramid field at Nuri (Bellal) in Sudan, at the right side of the three pyramids in the background are faint notes in pencil of the measurements for each structure:

• watercolour/pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'P 32 Pyramids of Nouri G A H'. (pencil note)
• 28.8 by 23.2 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Creases to top left corner
• Discoloured along 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. 31.
• 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.223.