Tadjoura, Djibouti: the sultan, reclining, listens to elders in council. Coloured lithograph by J. Woelffle after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
Date:
[1852-1855]
Reference:
3015898i
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Description

A compound surrounded by wooden huts. A man reclines on bench hearing representations from a standing man. Other people attend. Left, women cooking food on a fire. The reclining man is presumed to be Ad'allom Muhammad bin Hummad, Sultan of Tadjoura 1821-1859

Publication/Creation

[London] : [F.G. Moon] ; [Munich] : [The author], [1852-1855]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 25.2 x 33.8 cm

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A council of elders before the sultan's dwelling. J.M. Bernatz del. J. Woelffle lith. Signed indistinctly on the stone within the image with signatures of Bernatz and Woelffle Bears number: VII

References note

Not in: J.R. Abbey, Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860, vol. I, London, 1957, though mentioned on p. 258, under no. 291 (W.C. Harris, The highlands of Aethiopia, 1844)

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Wellcome Collection 3015898i

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