Item Hoskins MSS 3.32 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Study of a Man

1 watercolour

A man wearing a white kilt and detailed armlets on both elbows:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top right corner] '4'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'L B'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'P 16' (ink note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Shageea of the desert'. (ink note)
• 18.9 by 26.4 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Slight crease to top left corner and both bottom 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. 1 [left].
• 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).