Item Hoskins MSS 3.79 - George A. Hoskins Watercolour - Gebel Barkal

1 watercolour

View of the pyramid field area at Gebel Barkal, with several pyramid structures visible in the distance:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left edge] 'Pyramids of Gibel Birkel G A H P 2'. (pencil note)
• 41.5 by 27.4 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Tear to bottom left corner
• Dark marks on top left side, also dark marks on top right corner
• 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. 26.
• 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.203.