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Hoskins MSS 2.80
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George A. Hoskins Drawing - Various Sketches of People
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1 drawing
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(1802-1863)
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Drawings of groups of people including three men with weapons of spears and swords, a man and woman filling jars of water on the bank of the Nile, and two women carrying jars on their heads, one with a child:
- pencil drawing
- mounted
- [on recto, above figures] 'Arabi che si salutano' (top left), 'Arabs lighting a fire to be drawn as fine looking men Arabi che accendono il fuoco' (top right), 'Donne che vanno a prendere acqua'. (lower scene) (pencil notes)
- [on recto, top right] 'All the figures must be drawn as fine looking men'. (pencil note)
- 34.0 by 24.1 cm
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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- Creases to both top corners
- Paper unevenly cut along bottom edge
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- 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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