Zone d'identification
Cote
Hoskins MSS
Titre
George Alexander Hoskins Collection
Date(s)
- 1832-1833 and 1860-1861 (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
3 albums
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
(1802-1863)
Notice biographique
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).
Histoire archivistique
Acquired by Sir Alan Gardiner.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
The estate of Sir Alan H. Gardiner, 1964.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
3 albums containing watercolours and sketches.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Langue des documents
anglais
italien
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Catalogue.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are originals.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
None.
Unités de description associées
Not known.
Note de publication
Zone des notes
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.