A Dongola stallion from Nubia, in an Egyptian landscape with pyramids

The Dongola, or Dongol, horse is named after the area in Sudan from which it originates. This area was later the focus of the British Dongola Campaign in 1896 (part of the Campaigns of the Nile). One of the casualties of this Campaign was the famous amateur jockey, Captain Roddy Owen. Nubia, given as this horse's provenance, was an ancient kingdom covering southern Egypt and the north of Sudan. The date of 1823 for this picture suggests that it may originally have been intended to be added to Ward's series of lithographs, published in 1823-4. However, the Dongola does not appear in this series, and Ward may have found that there was insufficient demand for lithographs depicting breeds of horse, rather than individual named racehorses.