Item Hoskins MSS 2.76 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Shendi

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Hoskins MSS 2.76

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George A. Hoskins Drawing - Shendi

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Extent and medium

1 drawing

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Scope and content

View of a fortified royal residence at Shendi in northern Sudan:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • [on recto, top edge] 'V 5 p 146 Part of the residence of the ancient Meleks or kings of Shendy'. (pencil note)
  • [on recto, bottom left corner] 'L.B.' (ink note)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

  • Discoloured around edges

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Publication note

  • 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. 87.
  • 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).