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Horeau MSS 38.1
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Hector Horeau Watercolour - Wadi Halfa
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1 watercolour
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(1801-1872)
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View of the second cataract at Wadi Halfa, with seated figures in the foreground:
- watercolour
- mounted
- [on recto, bottom edge] 'Nubie.R.O. Vue de la 2e cataracte prise du rocher des visiteurs à noms) en regardt le sud. 14 mai 1838'. (ink note)
- [on mount] 'Mr Horeau, arrivé à la 2e Cataracte, inscrit son nom sur un rocher'. (pencil note)
- [on mount, verso] 'Haute-Egypte La 2e Cataracte, limite de l'Exploration de M. H. Horeau'. (ink note)
- 25.2 by 17.2 cm
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Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
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- Published in Horeau, H. 1841. Panorama d'Égypte et de Nubie: voyage fait en 1838. Reduction du grand ouvrage in 2° par Arosa & Co. Cairo (OEB 141685), fig. on p. 35 [verso].
- Published online in 2010 on the Griffith Institute website: 'Watercolours of Egypt made by Hector Horeau in 1838, now in the Archive of the Griffith Institute' (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4horeau_intro.html).