Ankober, Ethiopia: a religious procession with St Michael's church in the background. Coloured lithograph after J.M. Bernatz.

  • Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802-1878.
Date:
[1852-1855]
Reference:
3017295i
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Description

A procession led by musicians and by churchmen swinging censers, along a path leading from the round church. The church building was new at this time, having been built by King Sahle Selassie

Publication/Creation

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

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 23.2 x 34.3 cm

Lettering

Religious procession from the church of St Michael at Ankobar. Bears number: XXIII

Creator/production credits

The lettering on this print, unlike other prints in the same series, does not give the name of the artist or lithographer

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 (to be confirmed)
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 3017295i

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