Item Hoskins MSS 3.31 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Study of Two Men

1 watercolour

Two men with a raised weapon and shield:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'P38'. (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom edge] 'Arabs of the Shageea tribe fighting' (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom right corner] 'spears to be [...]'. (pencil note)
• 25.4 by 19.0 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Creases at both bottom corners and top right corner
• Discoloured particularly along bottom edge

• 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. 38.
• 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).