Item Hoskins MSS 3.20 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Island of Argo

1 watercolour

View of a fortified house on the Island of Argo (Arko):

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top right corner] 'House of Melek Tombol'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Melek Tumbols house in the Isld of Argo. Ethiopia -'. (ink note)
• 22.8 by 13.3 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Discoloured

• 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 206.
• 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).