Item Hoskins MSS 3.83 - George A. Hoskins Drawing - el-Kharga

1 drawing

View of the temple of Amun at Hibis, near the el-Kharga oasis:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Plate 3 Temple Vestibule of the Temple of el Khargeh'. (pencil note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Temple of Khargeh - Oasis of Thebes P 43'. (ink note)
• 32.5 by 23.0 cm

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Tear to top left corner of paper
• Slight crease to bottom left corner
• Discoloured

• 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. iv.
• 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.277.