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Hoskins MSS 2.60
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George A. Hoskins Drawing - Meroe
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1 drawing
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(1802-1863)
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Relief scene from the north wall of the chapel area of the pyramid of Queen Kanarta-Sar (South Group S.4) at Meroe, showing the seated queen on the left side, before a row of offering bearers and below an image of Anubis:
- pencil drawing
- mounted
- [on recto, bottom left edge] 'P 18 G A H'. (ink note)
- [on recto, bottom right edge] 'not reduced'. (pencil note)
- 42.0 by 27.1 cm
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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- Slight wrinkling to edges of paper
- Discoloured around edges
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- 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. 10.
- 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).
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- TopBib vii.256.
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