Item Hoskins MSS 3.29 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Study of a Man

1 watercolour

A male chief from the Shaigiya tribe wearing loose white clothing and holding a tall spear:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'P30'. (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'LB A Melek of the Shageea tribe'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Melek of the Shageea tribe'. (ink note)
• 19.0 by 26.5 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Slight creases to all corners
• Discoloured around 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. 30.
• 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).