Killalu, Djibouti: crocodiles at the edge of a pool. Coloured lithograph by A. Loeffler after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
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[1852-1855]
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3015911i
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Description

Bernatz shows vividly three very large and savage-looking crocodiles. Described by Kirk, op. cit., pp. 228-229: "Water was only procurable from the Killele wadi, distant 1 mile; in which, during the rainy seasea [season], crocodiles are said to be found", suggesting that the crocodiles could be imagined by Bernatz rather than observed

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

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.7 x 34 cm

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Oasis in the valley of Killalu. J.M. Bernatz del. A. Loefler lith Bears number: XVI

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
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 3015911i

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