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Scene with Greek soldiers, an Egyptian king and soldiers, an a Jewish captive king

Scene with Greek soldiers, an Egyptian king and soldiers, an a Jewish captive king:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to page 10
  • 39.8 x 24.8 cm
  • [on sketch] 'No 6.' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Greeks' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Jew from / Nineveh' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Egyptian soldiers' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Greek / soldiers / spears' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'body / armour' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Egyptian / King' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Jewish / King captive' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Egyptian guards / soldiers bows' (pencil note)
  • [on verso] '6' (pencil note)

Zenobia enters Egypt, with cartouches of Cleopatra

Zenobia enters Egypt, with cartouches of Cleopatra:

  • pencil sketch on paper, ink cartouche
  • loose, adjacent to page 10
  • 36.8 x 22.7 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Zenobia enters Egypt' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Asiatics' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Greeks' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Egyptians' (pencil note)

The sacred Apis bull predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus

The sacred bull Apis predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus:

  • inked pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to page 11
  • 37.0 x 22.3 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Germanicus consults the Bull Apis by offering him food' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'the Bull Apis returns an unfavourable answer to Germanicus by refusing to eat out of / his hands' (ink note)

Plato at Heliopolis discoursing on the immortality of the soul with Egyptians and Jews, with studies of scene and Jew

Plato at Heliopolis discoursing on the immortality of the soul with Egyptians and Jews, with studies of scene and Jew:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • loose, adjacent to page 11
  • 37.0 x 22.6 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Plato at Heliopolis discoursing / on the Immortality of the Soul / with the Egyptians & Jews' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Trial Scene' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Jews' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Greek' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Plato' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Egyptians' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Neath the Great Mother' (pencil note) [continuation of note in Bonomi MSS 41.26 (verso)]

Note on the Egyptian gods

Note on the Egyptian gods:

  • ink and pencil text on paper
  • loose, adjacent to page 11
  • 37.0 x 22.6 cm
  • [ink text] 'On the Egyptian Gods. / It is not easy to make a complete list of the / numerous gods that were worshipped in Egypt. / The priests were in the habit of increasing the / number in two ways; first by making a / second and third of the same name, with / some slight change of character, and secondly by / writing the names and characters of two and even / three to make a fourth. The more important / however are as follows. / Amun Ra, the god of Thebes who sits on his throne / in the sculpture R . In the group of statues / S he is embracing the king as his son.'
  • [pencil text]: 'Chem god San or Janus. / Nile carrying not water but harvest / figure half male half female / with lotus or lily on his head / Chonso with the moon on his head as seen / when two days x(?), the circular moon / within the horns of the new moon'

Shepherd carrying lamb and Luke 15:5 verse

Shepherd carrying lamb and Luke 15:5 verse:

  • inked pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to page 1
  • 7.5 x 12.3 cm
  • [on sketch] 'καὶ ἐὑρὼν ἐπιτίθησιν ἐπὶ τους / ωμους εἑαυτοῦ χαιρων / L 15 5' (pencil note) [translation: 'and when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing']

Designs for ewers

Designs for ewers:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • mounted on loose paper, together with Bonomi MSS 41.5, adjacent to page 2
  • 20.6 x 13.5 cm

Designs

Portfolio titled 'Designs / JB.' (ink)
Pencil notes: 'Designs / Designs & Mottos / Complete / Vol 1'.

Sketches of three scenes: Diana appearing in a dream to sick Arsinoe; man and woman playing chess, with standing man; and the sacred Apis bull predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus

Sketches of three scenes: Diana appearing in a dream to sick Arsinoe; man and woman playing chess, with standing man; and the sacred Apis bull predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 42.12
  • 36.7 x 22.6 cm
  • [on sketch] 'No 12' (pencil note)

Plato with stick

Plato with stick:

  • pencil drawing on tracing paper
  • loose, together with Bonomi MSS 42.14
  • 10.9 x 18.6 cm
  • [on drawing] 'WATERLOW & SONS / IMPROVED / LONDON' (ink stamp)

Shepherd holding a lamb, with sheep

Shepherd holding a lamb, with sheep:

  • pencil drawing with coloured pencil (brown) details on paper
  • loose, together with Bonomi MSS 42.13
  • 25.9 x 23.0 cm
  • [on drawing] 'JB' (pencil note)
  • [on drawing] 'BONVS / PASTOR' (pencil note, erased)

Egyptian princess (Solomon's future queen) receiving gifts from women of Tyre and Jews

Egyptian princess (Solomon's future queen) receiving gifts from women of Tyre and Jews:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 39.5 x 25.2 cm
  • [on sketch] 'No 4' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Jews' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'women of Tyre' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Egyptian princess / Solomon's future queen / Temple of Bubastis' (ink note)
  • [on verso] '4' (pencil note)

Mother reading with daughter

Mother reading with daughter:

  • inked pencil sketch with pencil frame on paper
  • partially attached, together with Bonomi MSS 42.6
  • 10.2 x 14.1 cm
  • [on sketch] 'JB' (pencil note)

Hourglass design

Hourglass design:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 42.5
  • 14.5 x 15.9 cm
  • [on sketch] 'FUTURE / N - O / PAST' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'FU' (pencil note, erased)
  • [on sketch] 'PRESENT' (pencil note)
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