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A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) in Nubia sheltering three people. Wood engraving by Faguet, c. 1867.

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A doum palm tree (Hyphaene thebaica) in Nubia sheltering three people. Wood engraving by Faguet, c. 1867.

Sir Gerald Graham directing the hoisting of patients on board a hospital ship, Sudan. Wood engraving by J.N., 1885.

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Sir Gerald Graham directing the hoisting of patients on board a hospital ship, Sudan. Wood engraving by J.N., 1885.

The Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, Sudan: laying of the foundation stone. Process print after a wood engraving.

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The Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, Sudan: laying of the foundation stone. Process print after a wood engraving.

Sir Gerald Graham directing the hoisting of patients on board a hospital ship, Sudan. Wood engraving by J.N., 1885.

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Sir Gerald Graham directing the hoisting of patients on board a hospital ship, Sudan. Wood engraving by J.N., 1885.

General Gordon standing on the stairs of his house about to be speared by dervishes. Etching by H. Dicksee after G. W. Joy.

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Description: In 1884 General Charles G. Gordon was sent to Khartoum to evacuate the Egyptian garrison. He attempted to defeat the Mahdi, but in 1885 the Mahdi captured Khartoum and massacred General Gordon and the garrison. The dervishes (followers of the Mahdi) took control of all Sudan except for the Red Sea fortresses.
General Gordon standing on the stairs of his house about to be speared by dervishes. Etching by H. Dicksee after G. W. Joy.

A forest of doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) in French Sudan, with a travelling group of men and horses. Wood engraving, c. 1867.

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A forest of doum palms (Hyphaene thebaica) in French Sudan, with a travelling group of men and horses. Wood engraving, c. 1867.

The Hon. Hubert Howard on his deathbed. Pencil drawing by George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle.

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Description: The Hon. Hubert Howard was killed by 'friendly fire' at the end of the Battle of Omdurman, Sudan, 2 September 1898: see P.F. D'Arcy, Laboratory on the Nile, New York 1999, pp. 24-25 (photograph of gravestone) The present drawing by his father might have been made as an idea for a tomb effigy.
The Hon. Hubert Howard on his deathbed. Pencil drawing by George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle.

Men on barges heading towards Khartoum, Sudan. Lithograph by Tom Merry, 6 September 1884.

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Men on barges heading towards Khartoum, Sudan. Lithograph by Tom Merry, 6 September 1884.

Group of Nubian women and children resting by the Nile at Korti, Sudan.

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Description: Group of Nubian women and children resting by the Nile at Korti, Sudan. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
Group of Nubian women and children resting by the Nile at Korti, Sudan.

Sir William Watson. Woodcut by R. Bryden.

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Description: (John) William Watson, poet; 'Watson chose the sonnet as a means of upbraiding Britain for its unjust actions in the Sudan and for its weak, indecisive response to Russia's hostile moves in Afghanistan' (ODNB); knighted in 1917 for poems praising Lloyd George's conduct of the War; opponent of obscurantism in the Modern Movement. Head and shoulders to right looking to front, with large moustache.
Sir William Watson. Woodcut by R. Bryden.

Male and female Ethiopian slaves resting, Korti, Sudan.

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Description: Male and female Ethiopian slaves resting, Korti, Sudan. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
Male and female Ethiopian slaves resting, Korti, Sudan.

Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.

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Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.

James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.

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Description: The place is called Gishe Abbay (meaning sourceof the Nile), according to Bredin; called Geesh by Bruce, loc. cit.
James Bruce of Kinnaird, having reached a fountain at Gisha (Abyssinia) regarded as the source of the Nile, uses a coconut to drink the water to the health of King George III and Empress Catherine the Great. Engraving by J. Gillray, 1793, after R.M. Paye.

Figures at the temple of Wadi Saboua, Sudan.

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Description: Figures at the temple of Wadi Saboua, Sudan. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
Figures at the temple of Wadi Saboua, Sudan.

Temple at Wadi Saboua, Sudan.

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Description: Temple at Wadi Saboua, Sudan. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1846.
Temple at Wadi Saboua, Sudan.

Metemma, Ethiopia: soldiers treating a trooper with severe sunstroke. Watercolour drawing.

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Metemma, Ethiopia: soldiers treating a trooper with severe sunstroke. Watercolour drawing.
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