Identity area
Reference code
Hoskins MSS
Nadpis
George Alexander Hoskins Collection
Date(s)
- 1832-1833 and 1860-1861 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
3 albums
Context area
Name of creator
(1802-1863)
Biographical history
British traveller, antiquary and amateur artist. Born, 1802. Died, Rome 1863. Visited Egypt in 1832-3 and 1860-1. Worked with Robert Hay at Qurna. Secretary and Treasurer of the White Nile Association, 1839. Published Travels in Ethiopia above the Second Cataract of the Nile (1835), Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert (1837), and A Winter in Upper and Lower Egypt (1863).
Archival history
Acquired by Sir Alan Gardiner.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The estate of Sir Alan H. Gardiner, 1964.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
3 albums containing watercolours and sketches.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Kept as received.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Language of material
angličtina
italština
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Catalogue.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Existence and location of copies
None.
Related units of description
Not known.
Publication note
Notes area
Note
- Image: George Alexander Hoskins, caricature by John Paget, c. 1842, inscribed "Hoskins having recovered his portmanteau enjoys a placid state of mind & resolves never to part from it again". Copyright Peggy Joy Egyptology Library, Michigan, USA.