Item Hoskins MSS 3.58 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Botanical Drawing

1 watercolour

The plant Tephrosia Apollinea:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] '[...] a generally interesting [pl]ant I have given it my work at the [...] glad of any remarks Indigo [L] B'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'P.4'. (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom right corner] 'Tephrosia Apollinea'. (pencil note)
• 18.5 by 18.8 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Damage to top right edge of paper
• Slight 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. 4 [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).