Adwa volcano and Mount Ayalu, Ethiopia: in the foreground, two dwellings (left, of stone; right, of wattle). Coloured lithograph by L. Rottmann after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
Date:
[1852-1855]
Reference:
3015969i
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Description

Women and children are shown in the foreground

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.6 x 34.7 cm

Lettering

Mount Abida and Aiyalu, with a Beduin encampment. J.M. Bernatz del. Leop. Rottmann lith. Bears number: XVIII

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 (pp. 231-232)
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 3015969i

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