drawing
- Museum number
- 1972,U.577
- Description
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Stronghold of Amba Tsion, twenty miles S of Adigrat; a valley out of which rises in the distance at right a high plateau terminated by jutting or isolated columnar cliffs, part of the British force, with baggage on mules and camels, pass from left to right in foreground, in distance at left hills. 1867-1868
Brush drawing in brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite; on buff paper
- Production date
- 1867-1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres
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Width: 358 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of several drawings, formerly in a Guard Book, made on the British expedition to Abyssinia in 1867-68.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.577
