Item Hoskins MSS 2.81 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour and Drawing - Dongola

1 watercolour and drawing

Drawing of a range of men and women inside a straw house with a timber frame in Dongola:

• watercolour and ink drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'Interior of a Dongolah Cottage'. (pencil note)
• 26.4 by 18.9 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• All corners cut
• Notable tear to paper at bottom centre

• 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. 37.
• 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).