Item Hoskins MSS 3.26 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Meroe

1 watercolour

View of the north group of pyramids at Meroe including the pyramid of Tarekenidal (No. 19) with a detailed relief scene on the entrance exterior:

• watercolour and pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'P 9'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Pyramids of Meroe capital of Ethiopia'. (ink note)
• 28.2 by 20.1 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Small dark marks along edges

• 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. 9.
• 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).

• TopBib vii.251.