Dullul, Djibouti: a mirage in which a camel train appears to walk through a lake. Coloured lithograph by L. Rottmann after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
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[1852-1855]
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3015902i
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Description

A "Bedawi encampment, near some wells, situated at the abutment of a spur from Jebel Gudah, of trachyte formation" about 11 miles SW of Tadjoura--Kirk, op. cit., p. 221

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

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.6 x 34.5 cm

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Mirage in the valley of Dullul. J.M. Bernatz del. Leop. Rottmann lith Signed on the stone within the image "Leop. Rottmann lith" Bears number: XIV

References note

R. Kirk, 'Report on the route from Tajurra to Ankóbar, travelled by the Mission to Shwá, under charge of Captain W. C. Harris, Engineers, 1841 (close of the dry season)', Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1842, 12: 221-238
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 3015902i

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