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Architectural drawings of the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily (Italy), with measurements

Architectural drawings of the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily (Italy), with measurements:

  • blue ink sketches on tracing paper
  • loose
  • 49.4 x 44.2 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Plan of half the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Length of side 369.5' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Length of End 182.8' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Windows' / 'Profile' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Centre not roof?' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Elevation within the Centre or nave.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Section of outer wall Large scale.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Elevation Large scale.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Restoration of the Temple of Jup. Olympius Agrigentum' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'with comparison of relative scale of Temple of Concord at Agrigentum & Parthenon at Athens.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Temple of Concord Agrigentum.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Parthenon at Athens.' (ink note)

England. London. Trafalgar Square. Nelson's Column.

Print of "Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square. &c." in London (England), by J. Shury, published by J. Harwood, with addition of statue of Britannia and other statues in watercolour:

  • print with watercolour (grey and brown) on paper
  • mounted
  • 18.9 x 15.7 cm
  • [on print] 'J. Shury. sculp' (printed note)
  • [on print] '12, Gt Carter Lane, Doctors Commons.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square. &c.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'PLACE DE TRAFALGAR.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'DIE NELSON SAULE.' (printed note)

Two angels flanking a door

Two angels flanking a door:

  • pencil drawing on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 40.15 and 40.17
  • 24.5 x 12.8 cm
  • [on drawing] 'JB' (pencil note)

Nude young Lapith holds a centaur's head from behind with his left; marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope XXVII) (London, British Museum, reg. 1816,0610.11 - BM Sculpture 316, 438-432 BC)

Nude young Lapith holds a centaur's head from behind with his left; marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope XXVII) (London, British Museum, reg. 1816,0610.11 - BM Sculpture 316, 438-432 BC):

  • ink sketch on treated tracing paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 40.20
  • 27.8 x 21.9 cm

Figure from plate 11 of the Compositions from the tragedies of Aeschylus, designed by John Flaxman, engraved by Thomas Piroli, London (1795)

Figure from plate 11 of the Compositions from the tragedies of Aeschylus, designed by John Flaxman, engraved by Thomas Piroli, London (1795):

  • ink and wash sketch on paper (remains of pencil)
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 40.21
  • 14.5 x 10.6 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Flaxman's Eschilylus. Pl. 11.'

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']

Crouched putto sleeping

Crouched putto sleeping:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 41.13 and Bonomi MSS 41.14
  • 14.2 x 10.8 cm
  • [on mount] '4' (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)]

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)

Ewer and lamp design

Ewer and lamp design:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 42.10
  • 18.3 x 16.7 cm
  • [on sketch] 'PRUDENCE' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'PR' (pencil note, erased)
  • [on sketch] '[P]RUD - ENCE' (pencil note, erased)

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'
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