An Ethiopian army returning from an exercise, led by King Sahle Selassie. Coloured lithograph by K. Lindemann-Frommel, after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
Date:
[1852-1855]
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3017294i
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[London] : [F.G. Moon] ; [Munich] : [The author], [1852-1855]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.5 x 33.7 cm

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Return from the field, and reception of the king by the priests. From J.F. Bernatz's sketches. Lith by Karl Lindemann-Frommel. Bears number: XXII

References note

Presumably described in: William Cornwallis Harris, The highlands of Aethiopia: a narrative of a mission to the kingdom of Shoa, 3 vols., London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 (to be confirmed)
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 3017294i

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