Ethiopia: celebrations after killing a buffalo. Coloured lithograph by A. Muttenthaler after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
Date:
[1852-1855]
Reference:
3015996i
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Description

In the centre, some armed Galla (Oromo) men are dancing around the head and hide of the decapitated buffalo. Around, Ethiopian and European people feast and rest. The European man drawing, right, is presumably Bernatz. Some of the Europeans have guns

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 26.7 x 34.7 cm

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Lettering

Galla dance of triumph after slaying a buffalo. J.M. Bernatz del. A. Muttenthaler lith. Signed on the stone: Amuttenthaler Bears number: XXIV

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 3015996i

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