drawing
- Museum number
- 1972,U.590
- Description
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The Talanta Plateau, seen from the head of the King's Road, twenty-five miles N of Magdala; view from a height, looking up the ravine of the Jedda, at the left the King's Road climbs over the mountain slopes, in the distance the high table-lands of Talanta and Daont. 1867-8
Brush drawing in brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite; on buff paper
- Production date
- 1867-1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 256 millimetres
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Width: 355 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
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Magdala Expedition 1867-1868
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.590