Einzelstück Hoskins MSS 2.80 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - Various Sketches of People

1 drawing

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

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Creases to both top corners
• Paper unevenly cut along bottom edge

• 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).