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

Seated woman attended by two standing women and man using compasses (probably Eratosthenes estimating Earth's circumference):

• inked pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 2
• 33.4 x 25.9 cm

Plato at Heliopolis discoursing on the immortality of the soul with Egyptians and Jews:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 2
• 50.1 x 19.2 cm

Kneeling man praying over dead child, with detail of man's head:

• pencil sketches on paper
• mounted on loose paper, adjacent to page 2
• 13.5 x 20.6 cm
• [on sketch] 'Rouen 13 Sep 1844' (pencil note)

Standing man leaning on stick:

• pencil drawing on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 2
• 10.9 x 19.4 cm

Jesus performing a miracle (probably the raising of Lazarus):

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted on loose paper, together with Bonomi MSS 41.4, adjacent to page 2
• 22.8 x 18.8 cm

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

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']

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'

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)]

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)

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)

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)

Seated female figure with nude child on her lap, chasing a bee:

• pencil drawing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
• mounted
• 15.4 x 14.9 cm (21.7 x 16.5 cm with mount)
• [on mount] '9' (pencil note)

Diana appearing in a dream to sick Arsinoe:

• partially inked pencil sketch on paper, with glued-on flap
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 41.20
• 36.4 x 22.5 cm
• [on flap] 'Three Egyptian gods' (pencil note)
• [on flap] 'Diana' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'No 15' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Diana tells Arsinoe that the removal of her statue from Syria / to Egypt was the cause of her illness.' (ink note)

Chair design:

• partially inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 18.8 x 22.8 cm
• [on mount] '8' (pencil note)

Seated man:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 1
• 8.4 x 20.7 cm

Two mirror views of man using compasses (probably Eratosthenes estimating Earth's circumference):

• pencil sketches on paper
• loose, adjacent to page 7
• 22.7 x 18.0 cm

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

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to page 6
• 39.5 x 24.8 cm

Murder of the sacred Apis bull by Cambyses II, with study of the king's hand:

• pencil sketches on paper
• loose, adjacent to page 6
• 39.5 x 24.8 cm
• [on sketch] 'No 8' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Egyptian priests in despair.' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'The Bull dying' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Persian king & attendants' (ink note)

Seated female figure with nude child on her lap, chasing a bird and a bee:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 5
• 25.3 x 12.6 cm

Seated female figure with nude child on her lap:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 5
• 25.3 x 12.6 cm

Stooped old Jew leaning on stick:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 5
• 14.2 x 18.4 cm

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)

Seated female figure with nude male child on her lap:

• pencil drawing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 41.13 and Bonomi MSS 41.15
• 13.8 x 11.1 cm
• [on drawing] 'JB' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note)

Standing mother and child:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 41.14 and Bonomi MSS 41.15
• 10.3 x 15.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'JB' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note)

Praying angel:

• partially inked pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted
• 11.9 x 15.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'JB' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Joseph riding in state:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to page 2
• 48.5 x 29.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'separate Pharaoh / from Joseph's horse' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'JOSEPH RIDING IN STATE.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'No. 1.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'And Pharaoh made him ride in the second chariot which he had, / and they cried before him, Bow the knee. / Genesis XLI. 43.' (ink note)

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''.

Standing statue of Britannia (probably design for lighthouse):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted on loose paper, adjacent to page 2
• 6.4 x 10.2 cm (10.4 x 11.1 cm with mount)