Tadjoura, Djibouti: the sultan in a cave with eight armed men. Coloured lithograph by A. Muttenthaler after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
Date:
[1852-1855]
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3015899i
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Description

The sultan is presumed to be Ad'allom Muhammad bin Hummad, Sultan of Tadjoura 1821-1859

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 24.8 x 33.8 cm

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Lettering

Portrait of the sultan of Tadjurra and costumes of various Dankali tribes. J.M. Bernatz del. A. Muttenthaler lith. Signed in the stone left: AMuttenthaler. Signed indistinctly by Bernatz, right Bears number: IX

References note

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)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3015899i

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