Ethiopia: King Sahle Selassie sitting in judgment in his palace. Coloured lithograph by P. Herwegen after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
Date:
[1852-1855]
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3017236i
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Description

A compound containing three round buildings. The king, Negus Sahle Selassie, reclines within an upper window, listening to representations from people standing below. Some bow down presumably begging for mercy. Left, two prisoners are marched off in chains by a man with a sword and shield

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.3 x 34.2 cm

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Court within the palace: the king sitting in judgment. From J.F. Bernatz's sketches. Lith by P. Herwegen. Bears number: VIII

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
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 3017236i

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