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

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)

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

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)

Woman seated at desk

Woman seated at desk:

  • inked pencil tracing with ink (black, grey, orange) wash on tracing paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bomoni MSS 46.32
  • 24.0 x 20.9 cm

Italy, Casinum (Cassino), reconstruction of Varro's aviary, and chair

Italy, Casinum (Cassino), reconstruction of Varro's aviary, traced from a copperplate engraving published in Bernard de Montfaucon, L'antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures, Tome Troisième, Première Partie, Seconde édition, revue et corrigée (1722), plate 67, and chair:

  • pencil tracings on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 46.46 and Bonomi 46.48
  • 24.8 x 17.3 cm
  • [on sketch] 'VOLIERE DE VARRON' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Montfaucon / TOM V Page 134' (pencil note)

Note

Note:

  • pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 5.2 x 7.8 cm
  • [text] 'This same on the / tablet of the Sphinx'

Medea plans the murder of her children, who are playing knucklebones

Medea plans the murder of her children, who are playing knucklebones, sketched or traced from a late 19th century engraving reproducing a fresco from the peristyle 53 of the Casa dei Dioscuri at Pompeii, now in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 8977, 1st century AD):

  • pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 48.15-17
  • 9.1 x 9.3 cm
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