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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)

Mother reading with daughter

Mother reading with daughter; partial figure of mother also visible on verso:

  • pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 50.11-14 and Bonomi MSS 50.16
  • 7.1 x 8.6 cm

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

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 /

  1. / 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'

New Zealand medal design

New Zealand medal design:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 25.3 x 17.8 cm
  • [on sketch] 'NEW ZEALAND' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'HONORARY' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '1865' (pencil note)

Note

Note:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 11.5 x 6.0 cm
  • [text]
    'Herewith are the hierogs-
    you desire- completing the
    Dendera Deities all except the gentlemen
    with sword in hand.'

Note

Note:

  • pencil text on paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 51.1
  • 8.2 x 5.2 cm
  • [text]: 'Woolner scafold(?) / Bicletti Bioletti' (pencil note)

Note

Note:

  • pencil text on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
  • 5.4 x 5.5 cm
  • [text] '1843 / Cairo to Wady Halfa / and back in 44 days / journey completed by the / end of September / Nº/ 24 Edinboro or Quarterly account of / Eastern Africa' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Note

Note:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 16.2 x 10.3 cm
  • [text]: 'I hope it has left you / Send to Scoles for Mr P A's bust / Call on Hallman'

Note

Note:

  • pencil and brown pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 6.1 x 13.6 cm
  • [pencil text]: 'Psametechus statue / of Fetu(?) menophis(?) / (?) whether head / or (?)'
  • [pencil text]: '11 10 / 1 20 / 4 15 / 5 30 / 8 30'
  • [brown pencil text]: '20 / 1 / (?)'

Note

Note:

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

Note and diagram

Note (probably address) and diagram (probably street plan):

  • pencil text and sketch on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.14 [Upper]
  • 4.4 x 4.8 cm
  • [text] 'Rue Tronchet / 29' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '5 / 7 / 9 / 11' (pencil notes)
  • [on mount] '10' (pencil note)

Note from the voyage to France

Note from the voyage to France:

  • pencil text on paper
  • mounted
  • 4.8 x 19.5 cm
  • [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)
  • [on mount] '4' (pencil note)

Note from the voyage to France (second incomplete version)

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)'
  • [on mount] '4' (pencil note, by Bonomi)

Note in Italian

Note in Italian:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 12.2 x 6.2 cm
  • [text]: '- presenta i suoi rispetti alla signoria / e le prega di [?] il frutto / x[?] a lui [?]'

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

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'

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 (continuation), with two sketches of a big-bellied man

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 (continuation), with two sketches of a big-bellied man:

  • pencil note on paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 43.1
  • 11.1 x 18.1 cm
  • [text] 'opportunities of delineating its effects / on the contour of the human fabric / from the constant exposure nature of the the costume (sic = custom) / X The of those days in the hot climates / of Greece and Egypt being seldom more / than a single piece of cotton or woollen / cloth which was thrown about the body / at the will or caprice of the wearer always most / generally leaving a considerable portion of its / surface to the action of light and air and / thus giving an opportunity to sculptor and painter to / make himself familiar with the configuration of the human body / under all circumstances and this is perhaps what made / them such masters of in the art of sculpture / and very early ...(?) X and as this beautiful / work ...(?) been it puortrays so faithfully / the effect of his soul(?) indulgence in alcohol / to this truth of which we are / all … … …(?) We scarcely need the aid / of the wine skin on which the figure is reclining in his / drunken offers(?) to inform us of the imbibe of the above in a salty eye the figure we need not the fulsome work of / to …(?) the abdomen scarcely covered scalp the ample beard / sufficiently'

Note on furniture

Note on furniture:

  • pencil note on lined paper
  • mounted on loose paper, adjacent to page 2
  • 9.0 x 8.8 cm (10.4 x 11.1 cm with mount)
  • [text]

    ''Most judicious and valuable is a / deal table stained black with ink it / is agreeable to the eyes at candle / light and highly condusive to the / maintenance of the

    Also to be recommended a chair / made of boxes that would take the / shape [x] so conducive to longev- / ity as it is the position of complete / repose''.

Note on signet rings

Note on signet rings:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 13.1 x 21.3 cm
  • [page number] '36'
  • [text]:

'Signet ring of fine gold weighing nearly 3 sovereigns

bearing the name of Shufu the (Suphis) of the Greeks

This remarkable piece of antiquity is in the highest state

preservation and said to have been found at Gezeh

in a tomb near that to the excavation of Col Campbell The work

in The style of the hieroglyphics is perfectly that of those

sculptors hieroglyphics of the tombs about the

great pyramid all the details are eminently executed

The heaven is engraved with minute stars; The Fox or Jackall has

significant lines within its con[t]our; The hatchets have

their handles bound with thongs as usual in the sculptures; The volumes have the

string that binds them differently hanging below the

roll differently placed from any example in sculptured or

painted hierogs in the tombs; The determinative for country

is studded with dots representing the sand of the mountainous

margins of the side valley of Egypt The sign [F35] has the

tongue and semilunar mark of the longer examples as also

the vase in the shape of the heart. The Name is surmounted

by the usual globe and feathers decorated in the usual way except

that the lines are more horizontal than in the sculptured examples,

and the ring of The cartouch is engraved with lines representing

a rope of of which decoration I know no of the line inclosing

the hieroglyphics of a royal name I know of no example but

this; the [Aa1] in the name is placed as in the tombs not in

the centre as of the cartouch; the chickens have their unfledged

wings The serastes its horns to be seen only with the magnifying

glass Of the variations in from the usual made of representing

a volume and the inclosure of Royal names are circumstances

favorable to the genuineness of this remarkable piece of antiquity

for when taken into consideration with the style of the work which

is infinitely more difficult to imitate than little little x(?)

in which details from in which the fabricator would not have

ventured to differ from the known examples'

Note on signet rings (continuation)

Note on signet rings (continuation):

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 13.1 x 21.3 cm
  • [page number] '37'
  • [text]:

'Ring of fine gold found in a wooden box at Thebes in a tomb at Thebes

Gold ring with a figure of Isis sitting
it is massive and of that shape called Opisphendone Thebes Sakkara

Ring of fine gold with the figures of 2 goddesses
engraved in two cartouches surmounted with the
feathers Sakkara

Scarabeus set in gold on a pivot

Ring of pure(?) gold in which is tastefully inserted
2 blue stones and one red one

Ring of gold with a pyramidal stone in it

Ring of gold with a x plate

Ring of gold with a carnelian scarabeus

Ring of silver massive and of the greek form

Sakkara'

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