Relief depicting bearded male foreigner's head profile, probably a Syrian, Neo-Assyrian; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab (not identified), possibly from the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq; and small sketch of Egyptian queen or goddess:

• pencil sketches/tracings on tracing paper
• loose
• 21.8 x 24.5 cm

Relief depicting man (from group of two) bringing city models as tribute, c. 710-705 BC; drawing/tracing in grid after E. Flandin's drawing of gypsum slab from the North-West Wall of Court VIII in the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq, current location not known:

• pencil drawing/tracing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
• loose
• 19 x 30.8 cm (23.5 x 31 cm with mount)

Lobulated design:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 23.5 x 31 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 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 eunuch with sword and holding double band, c. 710-705 BC; sketch/tracing in grid after E. Flandin's drawing of gypsum slab from the South-West Wall of Court VIII in the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq, current location not known:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper, mounted on paper, with two ink marks
• loose
• 19 x 30.8 cm (21.2 x 34.5 cm with mount)

Incomplete wing:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 34.5 x 21.2 cm

Relief depicting a man holding an ibex and poppy seed pods, c. 710-705 BC; sketch/tracing in grid after E. Flandin's drawing of black limestone slab from Façade m in the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq, now in Paris, Musée du Louvre, AO 19872:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
• loose
• 20.8 x 35.6 cm (20.8 x 36.1 cm with mount)
• [on sketch] 'Pl 43 Vol 1' (pencil note)

Winged bulls with human head (lamassu) flanking sacred tree, c. 710-705 BC; ink and watercolour drawing from gypsum sculpture in one of the gates of the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq:
Iraq. Khorsabad. Palace of Sargon II. Gate. :

• ink and watercolour (grey, blue, yellow, red, black brown, pink) drawing on card
• loose
• 37 x 26.3 cm

Relief depicting one man striking another man holding decapitated head, Neo-Assyrian; sketch in grid from gypsum slab (not identified), probably from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 23.2 x 33 cm

Relief depicting archers attacking an enemy town, c. 730-727 BC; sketch/tracing of gypsum slab from the Central Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq:
now in London, British Museum, BM 118903 = 1848,1104.4:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 32.45
• 19 x 19 cm

Relief depicting two men leading a spotted horse ridden by a child, Neo-Assyrian; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab (not identified):

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 32.44
• 19.7 x 16.5 cm

Relief depicting a battle scene, where the chariot of a beardless Assyrian officer leads charge towards hillock, c. 865-860 BC; drawing/tracing from gypsum slab (panel 8 <top>) from Room B in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124546 = 1849,0502.12 (reversed):

• pencil drawing/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted
• 38.2 x 22 cm

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, black limestone, 825 BC; sketch/tracing with view of front side of object from Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 118885 = 1848,1104.1:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 10.1 x 24.8 cm

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 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 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

Portfolio titled 'Antiques in / Lord North's Collection / JB.' (ink)
Pencil notes: 'Sketches from the Antiques / Ld North's Collection / Complete'.

Relief of helmeted and cloaked male figure with female(?) figure behind:

• ink and pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
• 22.9 x 17.5 cm
• traces of two female figures (probably muses) from another drawing "impressed" in white

Relief of panther(?) and wing:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 33.8
• 5.7 x 4.0 cm

Free-standing sculpture of draped standing male youth:

• ink drawing on paper, with traces of initial pencil drawing
• mounted
• 11.1 x 19.4 cm

Free-standing sculpture of Asclepius with Rod in left hand:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 10.2 x 25.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'ally' (pencil note, rubbed out)

Free-standing sculpture of bearded male nude figure (Zeus(?)) with raised right arm and cape:

• partially inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.8 x 19.5 cm

Free-standing sculpture of youth in tunic, partially erased study of right hand on left:

• pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
  -19.4 x 26.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'Sep 1817' (pencil note)

Free-standing sculpture of Athena with helmet and shield:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 20.2 x 25.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'Sep 1817' (pencil note)

Free-standing sculpture of spear bearing male nude, pencil sketch of head underneath ink facing opposite direction:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 12.3 x 24.5 cm

Free-standing sculpture of faun, cut off arm on right:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 10.9 x 19.2 cm

Relief of partial running figure:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 33.8
• 2.8 x 5.8 cm