Mourning women and child behind the [coffin being dragged] from a scene depicting the funeral procession of the deceased in the Hall of Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.91.(4).I):
pencil and watercolor (black and pink) sketch on tracing paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Middle and Bottom]
15.7 x 12.1 cm
[on mount] 'Two young women a child / and a grey headed old woman / putting dust on their heads / at the departure of the boat / that carries the mummy of / some relation or benefactor / to the Tomb / Drawn from the wall of a / tomb at Gorna' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Tomb of Nefer Hotep (49)' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
[text] 'Cassot island near / and belonging to / Crete (Candia) in this / island about the begin[nin]g / of the Greek war a ship / belonging to the french / ship conveying arms / which was taken by / pirates and conveyed / to this island who after / taking the contents / permitted the ship to / go. Soon after this / event came to the / island a large french vessel / of war and a smaller / one to demand the / restitution of the / arms which was / given up The captain / of the larger vessel / finding two (?) / slaves one tall the / other short bought / them of the master / The Tall slave is the / sister of a man / in the service of / Husseyn son of H II M A called / Krasheed'
[on mount] 'This note written on board a Steemer / belonging to Muhammad Ali at Marseilles / at the request of the brother of the person to be / enquired for on my arrival in Paris / The brother a slave that accompanied / the son of M Ali on the voyage from Egypt / to France His office was to wait on the / young prince and to rub his feet' (pencil note)
Note from the voyage to France (second incomplete version):
pencil text on paper
mounted
4.8 x 6.5 cm
[text] 'In the beginning of the / Greek war a french vessel / conveying arms was cap / tured by greek pirates and / taken to Cassot, a small / island near Crete (Candia)'
Note on the pyramidion and copy of the cartouches of an obelisk of Tuthmosis III, originally erected in front of the South Face of the Seventh Pylon in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes, and now in Istanbul ("Obelisk of Theodosius") (TopBib ii.171):
pencil text and sketches on paper
loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
5.2 x 8.5 cm
[on sketch] 'The W face of Pyramidion of the / obelisk of Constantinople / the god holds the king / by his right hand / and gives him life' (pencil note)
Weighing of the heart scene and deceased led by Harsiesi to Osiris, Isis and Nephthys, from the Tomb of Amenemopet, location not known, on the West Bank of Thebes:
pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.14 [Lower]
19.5 x 8.3 cm
[on mount] 'Theban Tomb Amenemopet (Site unknown)' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Pencil notes: '12 / Views Egypt / Complete' Pencil notes: 'List within / Mostly Assuan - / 1 Sakk[ara]' (rubbed out) (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'G' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Egyptian objects and ornament: bowl of wooden cosmetic spoon in the shape of a cartouche (upper and side views); faience amulet depicting a ram-headed god (side, front and back views); lotus design:
pencil, ink and watercolour (green, brown, red, yellow) drawings on paper
Portfolio titled 'Tracings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Ink note: 'Tracings Egypt' Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'J' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Nubia & one Dendera' (originally all underlined, now only 'Nubia') (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Back cover: Pencil note: 'Tracings Egyptian' (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Sketches / Complete'.
Note on a marble statue in the collection of Dr Lee of Hartwell and on the artistic representation of the effects of alcohol in the human body:
pencil text on paper
loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 43.1
11.1 x 18.1 cm
[text] 'Statue of a man sleeping on a / wine skin in Pentelic marble. / S of this proper line long wide This statue in the / collection of Dr Lee of Hartwell is of excellent sculpture and probably / by an Athenian artist since it / is made carved out of a marble found in / the vicinity of Athens. / Very early indeed did the thinking and in / telligent man of antiquity such as poets / painters and sculptors describe and / pourtray each in with admirable truth the effects / of persistant indulgence in alcoholic / beverages on the intellect and on the / external configuration of the human body / X They indeed had more than we have and better'