River Awash, Ethiopia: people pulling a raft across the river. Coloured lithograph by A. Löffler after J.M. Bernatz.

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

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

River Hawash. J.M. Bernatz del. A. Löffler lith. Bears number: XX Signed on the stone: Löffler lith

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. 234-235: "This day was occupied in transporting the baggage and camels to the opposite bank. The loads were placed on rafts, constructed from the drift timber found on the shore, under which from twelve to twenty inflated water-skins were lashed, rendering the whole very buoyant. The transit of these rafts was facilitated by means of a rope passed from bank to bank.")

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)

Wellcome Collection 3015974i