Plan and 3D model of vaulted building, possibly in Syria (not identified); and seated figure:

• pencil and ink sketches on paper
• loose
• 13.3 x 10.4 cm

Cityscape of town, possibly in Syria (not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 7 x 12.5 cm

Cityscape of town, possibly in Syria (not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 17.9 x 11 cm

Landscape with human figure, possibly in Syria (not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 17 x 9.2 cm

View of building on hill top, possibly in Syria (not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 14.5 x 10 cm

View inside courtyard of mosque at possibly Aleppo in Syria (not identified):

• partially inked pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 22.7 x 18cm

Cropped sketch of a man's head profile:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 6.6 x 4.9 cm

Relief depicting men pulling ropes, c. 700-692 BC; tracing mounted on sketch in grid from gypsum slab from Court VI in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124822 = 1851,0902.4:
from Court VI of the Southwest Palace in Nineveh in Iraq:

• Pencil tracing on tracing paper, mounted on pencil sketch in grid on paper
• loose
• 13.8 x 15.8 cm (18.2 x 22.6 cm with mount)
• [on tracing] 'JB/ JBonomi' (pencil note)

Handwritten text:

• pencil text on paper
• loose
• 18.2 x 22.6 cm
• [text]:

'If any man wants [?] {[?]} [?] of the truth of {the} [?]

here it is if he cannot find in history if he cannot

find it in his own heart or if refuses to seek for it then

became he wants an [?] not to look for it then

here is abundance say there books are only words which

[?] him another thing him [?] [?] being

subject to errors of various kinds the [?] of

[?] the [?] of [?] the [?]

of ad(d)itions for [?] of years and offer all

on oldest copy are not another is any

years old which years [?] [?] [?]

except it [?], and year [?] [?] first

year seeing the middle [?]

but is like a middle [?]

The [?] [?] on certainly managed to carry

The expression of age and fatigue of [?] and [?]

are the conclusion[?] the strenuous efforts'

Relief depicting Assyrians carrying off booty and heads and booty piled up in a palm grove, c. 640-620 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panels 10-12) from Court XIX (U) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124825,b = 1851,0902.1.b:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 25 x 16 cm

Schematic plan of London in the United Kingdom; preparatory sketch for publication:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose
• 9.9 x 8 cm
• [on drawing] '18 miles 3/4 / 11 miles 1/4' (pencil notes)

Lion with tongue out from the third scene of the lower register, in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel (TopBib vii.103.(39)-(40)):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 41.9 x 26.8 cm
• [on sketch] '.ABOO SIMBEL.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'lyon de Sesostrifs' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] encircled '9' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on verso] encircled '4' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on verso] 'Abu Symbel etc' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Relief depicting four male captives removing stones in baskets, c. 700-692 BC; sketch in grid from gypsum slab (panels 66-67) from Court VI (I) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124821 = 1851,0902.5:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 44.5 x 56.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'The younger men are chained {two} together / Some have fetters on their legs' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '"Thou didst show them no mercy / whom the ancient hast thou very / heavily laid thy yoke" Isaiah 47.6 / This is said of the Babylonians but is equally / applicable as we see to the Ninevites who were in / fact under the same rule / "Woe to him that buildeth a town / with blood (underlined) and stablisheth a city / by iniquity!" Habak 2 12 / Woe to the bloody city Nahum 3 1' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'This is a remarkable expression / of age and fatigue in the attitude / and countenance of their figures / which no doubt was the intention / of the assyrian artist to convey / It represents a number of jewish? / captives carrying stones up a steep / mound so steep as to require holes / or foot steps to enable the me / to go up to its top / It may be they are conveying stones / to make an inclined / plain over which to / drag a colossal bull / to the top of one of the / artificial mounds {or hills} on / which the palaces of / the kings of Nineveh / were built.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The word translated blood (underlined) / in the quotation from Habakak / is [...] in the plural / perhaps to signify (partially rubbed out) the {repeated} cruel / waste of life occasioned by / own fatigue / So in the quotation from / Nahum the word bloods is [...] / which might be rendered city of bloods / {that is} city built at the cost of so many lives / a succession of captives, of deportations of the inhabitants / from neighbouring countries' (pencil note)

Relief depicting an Assyrian eunuch general with three Elamite captives, c. 660-650 BC; unfinished sketch in grid from gypsum slab (panels 4-6) from Room XXXIII in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124802.a = 1851,0902.7.a:

• Pencil sketch
• loose
• 58.6 x 44.7 cm
• [on verso] 'Josephs' (pencil note)

Relief depicting a female winged protective spirit facing left, wearing a two-horned hat and holding a chaplet, performing an act of worship (?), c. 865-860 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panel 20) from Room I in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124578 = 1849,0502.4:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 15.1 x 23.9 cm
• [on sketch] 'From the N.W. Palace at once the best & most / ancient - Not destroyed by fire but suffered / from natural decay.' (pencil note)

Relief depicting the head of an eunuch or youth facing left with bow, Neo-Assyrian; drawing from gypsum slab (not identified):

• Pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 10.9 x 12.9 cm

Relief depicting a male servant carrying dried locusts, c. 704-681 BC; sketch from gypsum slab from Room LI (North) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124798 = 1851,0902.11:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 7.7 x 17.5 cm
• [on sketch] '[?] / 23 Harley[?] (underlined) Holles / 29 B[?]'

Relief depicting an eunuch attendant (head and shoulders) with fly-flapper facing left, c. 865-860 BC; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab fragment from Room G in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, currently in an unknown location:

• pencil sketch/tracing on paper
• mounted
• 12.2 x 9.1 cm

Text (22 lines) in cuneiform script with annotations, now in the British Museum (not identified):

• print with pencil and brown pencil annotations on paper
• loose
• 10.7 x 18.9 cm

Names of kings, gods and places in cuneiform with their English equivalents:

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 25 x 20.2 cm
• [text]:

'at (underlined) AT country / Assyrian Ninevite /

Lane / n.133. / 126. / Niebuhr A. / Niebuhr G. /

1 / Darius in Persepolitan /

2. / Heroes in Persepolitan from / the Alabaster Vase in the three / writings and with hieroglyphs / at Paris /

King Persian khsayathiya (underlined) /

King Achemenian /

King Ninevite ~malca?~ (underlined) MALCA /

King Median ~ku~ (underlined) KU (underlined) / (Westergard) /

Khsayathiya. King. Persian'

View of the west wall of Medinet Nimrood (Nimrud) in Iraq:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 24.2 x 9.8 cm
• [on sketch] 'MEDINET NIMROOD' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The west wall of Timei[?]' (pencil note)

Relief depicting a man bringing a city model as tribute, c. 710-705 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panels 6-7) from Room 10 in the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq, now in Paris, Musée du Louvre, AO 19887; and sketch of column from Persepolis in Iran:

• pencil sketches on tracing paper
• loose
• 21 x 11.5 cm

Detail of locusts in Bonomi MSS 32.10 (recto) and relief depicting horses being led by grooms, c. 700-692 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panels 37-38) from Room LI (North) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124795,a-c = 1851,0902.14:
-pencil sketches on paper
-loose
-7.7 x 17.5 cm

Names of kings, gods and places in cuneiform with their English equivalents:

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 25 x 20.2 cm
• [text]:
  'great / Rasarar RASARAR (Median) / (Westegard) /
  waz arka great Persian /
  rabhu (underlined) great / Ninevite /
  God Median / [?] BAGA. ANAP / Westegard /
  God Assyrian / AN. /
  BAGA in Persian.'

Iraq. Nineveh. South-West Palace of Sennacherib. Room XXXIII. Panels 4-6. Relief depicting an Assyrian eunuch general with three Elamite captives, c. 660-650 BC; unfinished sketch in grid from gypsum slab now in London, British Museum, BM 124802.a = 1851,0902.7.a:

• pencil sketch in grid on paper, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
• loose
• 21.6 x 17.8 cm

Relief depicting archers shooting from tower, Neo-Assyrian; three sketches from gypsum slab (not identified). Similar to relief depicting Ashurnasirpal II besieging a strongly-walled town which is being defended by archers, c. 865-860 BC; gypsum slab (panel 18 <top>) from Room B in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124536 = 1847,0623.6:

• pencil sketches on tracing paper
• loose
• 5.8 x 13.3 cm

Relief depicting a female winged protective spirit facing left, wearing a two-horned hat and holding a chaplet, performing an act of worship (?), c. 865-860 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panel 20) from Room I in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124578 = 1849,0502.4:

• Pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 15.3 x 24.8 cm

Sketch of two of the rock-stelae, with inscriptions and notes, at Nahr el-Kelb in Lebanon (TopBib vii.385):

• pencil sketch with brown wash on tracing paper
• loose
• 13.4 x 8.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'Band VII / abth 3 / blatt CLXXIII / CCXIII / 197 / abth III BL197' (pencil note)

Relief depicting two ships rowing away from palace surrounded by sea creatures, c. 730 BC; drawing after Henry Layard's drawing of gypsum wall panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now partially in London, British Museum, BM 102981 = 1908,1010.1:

• Pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 42 x 28.5 cm
• [on drawing] 'A.H. Layard.' (pencil note)
• [on drawing] 'Ceptre.' (pencil note)

Relief depicting soldiers in a chariot, c. 640-620 BC; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab (panels 10-12) from Court XIX (U) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124825,b = 1851,0902.1.b:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 11.4 x 8 cm