Relief depicting two men leading a spotted horse ridden by a child, Neo-Assyrian; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab (not identified):

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 32.44
• 19.7 x 16.5 cm

Relief depicting a battle scene, where the chariot of a beardless Assyrian officer leads charge towards hillock, c. 865-860 BC; drawing/tracing from gypsum slab (panel 8 <top>) from Room B in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124546 = 1849,0502.12 (reversed):

• pencil drawing/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted
• 38.2 x 22 cm

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, black limestone, 825 BC; sketch/tracing with view of front side of object from Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 118885 = 1848,1104.1:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 10.1 x 24.8 cm

Relief depicting four male captives removing stones in baskets, c. 700-692 BC; sketch in grid from gypsum slab (panels 66-67) from Court VI (I) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124821 = 1851,0902.5:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 44.5 x 56.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'The younger men are chained {two} together / Some have fetters on their legs' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '"Thou didst show them no mercy / whom the ancient hast thou very / heavily laid thy yoke" Isaiah 47.6 / This is said of the Babylonians but is equally / applicable as we see to the Ninevites who were in / fact under the same rule / "Woe to him that buildeth a town / with blood (underlined) and stablisheth a city / by iniquity!" Habak 2 12 / Woe to the bloody city Nahum 3 1' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'This is a remarkable expression / of age and fatigue in the attitude / and countenance of their figures / which no doubt was the intention / of the assyrian artist to convey / It represents a number of jewish? / captives carrying stones up a steep / mound so steep as to require holes / or foot steps to enable the me / to go up to its top / It may be they are conveying stones / to make an inclined / plain over which to / drag a colossal bull / to the top of one of the / artificial mounds {or hills} on / which the palaces of / the kings of Nineveh / were built.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The word translated blood (underlined) / in the quotation from Habakak / is [...] in the plural / perhaps to signify (partially rubbed out) the {repeated} cruel / waste of life occasioned by / own fatigue / So in the quotation from / Nahum the word bloods is [...] / which might be rendered city of bloods / {that is} city built at the cost of so many lives / a succession of captives, of deportations of the inhabitants / from neighbouring countries' (pencil note)

Relief depicting an Assyrian eunuch general with three Elamite captives, c. 660-650 BC; unfinished sketch in grid from gypsum slab (panels 4-6) from Room XXXIII in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124802.a = 1851,0902.7.a:

• Pencil sketch
• loose
• 58.6 x 44.7 cm
• [on verso] 'Josephs' (pencil note)

Relief depicting the head of an eunuch or youth facing left with bow, Neo-Assyrian; drawing from gypsum slab (not identified):

• Pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 10.9 x 12.9 cm

Relief depicting men pulling ropes, c. 700-692 BC; tracing mounted on sketch in grid from gypsum slab from Court VI in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124822 = 1851,0902.4:
from Court VI of the Southwest Palace in Nineveh in Iraq:

• Pencil tracing on tracing paper, mounted on pencil sketch in grid on paper
• loose
• 13.8 x 15.8 cm (18.2 x 22.6 cm with mount)
• [on tracing] 'JB/ JBonomi' (pencil note)

Handwritten text:

• pencil text on paper
• loose
• 18.2 x 22.6 cm
• [text]:

'If any man wants [?] {[?]} [?] of the truth of {the} [?]

here it is if he cannot find in history if he cannot

find it in his own heart or if refuses to seek for it then

became he wants an [?] not to look for it then

here is abundance say there books are only words which

[?] him another thing him [?] [?] being

subject to errors of various kinds the [?] of

[?] the [?] of [?] the [?]

of ad(d)itions for [?] of years and offer all

on oldest copy are not another is any

years old which years [?] [?] [?]

except it [?], and year [?] [?] first

year seeing the middle [?]

but is like a middle [?]

The [?] [?] on certainly managed to carry

The expression of age and fatigue of [?] and [?]

are the conclusion[?] the strenuous efforts'

Relief depicting Assyrians carrying off booty and heads and booty piled up in a palm grove, c. 640-620 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panels 10-12) from Court XIX (U) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124825,b = 1851,0902.1.b:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 25 x 16 cm

Relief of helmeted and cloaked male figure with female(?) figure behind:

• ink and pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
• 22.9 x 17.5 cm
• traces of two female figures (probably muses) from another drawing "impressed" in white

Relief of panther(?) and wing:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 33.8
• 5.7 x 4.0 cm

Free-standing sculpture of draped standing male youth:

• ink drawing on paper, with traces of initial pencil drawing
• mounted
• 11.1 x 19.4 cm

Free-standing sculpture of Asclepius with Rod in left hand:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 10.2 x 25.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'ally' (pencil note, rubbed out)

Free-standing sculpture of bearded male nude figure (Zeus(?)) with raised right arm and cape:

• partially inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.8 x 19.5 cm

Free-standing sculpture of youth in tunic, partially erased study of right hand on left:

• pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
  -19.4 x 26.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'Sep 1817' (pencil note)

Free-standing sculpture of Athena with helmet and shield:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 20.2 x 25.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'Sep 1817' (pencil note)

Free-standing sculpture of spear bearing male nude, pencil sketch of head underneath ink facing opposite direction:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 12.3 x 24.5 cm

Free-standing sculpture of faun, cut off arm on right:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 10.9 x 19.2 cm

Relief of partial running figure:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 33.8
• 2.8 x 5.8 cm

Relief of battle scene with two fighting warriors, one dying warrior, and helmeted Athena on left (Naples, not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper:
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 34.2
• 21.1 x 13.9 cm

Free-standing bronze statuette of putto with amphora on right shoulder (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5027, 3rd quarter of 1st century AD):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.2 x 21.1 cm

Free-standing bronze statuette of young satyr holding wine sack and rhyton (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Inv. 5033, late 1st century BC - early 1st century AD):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.2 x 21.1 cm

Free-standing marble sculpture of a satyr with the infant Dionysus (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6022, 2nd half of 2nd century AD):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.5 x 21.1 cm

Bronze bust of ephebe (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5633, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.3 x 21.1 cm

Four sketches:

1) [upper left] bronze statuette of Zeus (Jupiter) standing naked with cloak on shoulder, holding lightning bolt with left hand and sceptre with raised right hand (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, no inv. number (id. 13121) or inv. 5053, date not known);

2) [upper right] bronze statuette of little bacchic winged genie with rabit and grapes (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5242, date not known);

3) [lower left] bronze statuette of young dancing satyr holding thyrsus (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5292, late 1st century BC - early 1st century AD);

4) [lower right]bronze statuette of Venus (Aphrodite) with golden arm and leg bracelets and dolphin beside (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5133, 1st century BC - 1st century AD):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.7 x 21.1 cm
• [on lower right sketch] 'gold' (pencil note)

Colour-coded sketch of winged horses pulling two charioteers in profile, and beginning of meander pattern with water fowl below; probably fragment of painting on Attic or Italiote vase (Naples, not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 24.1 x 18.3 cm
• [on sketch] 'A red / B white / C black / D' (pencil note) [key to colours annotated in sketch]

View of the forum of Pompeii, looking South-East:

• pencil drawing on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 34.1-2
• 39.0 x 24.9 cm
• [on drawing] 'Pompeii' (pencil note)
• [on drawing] 'Forums Pompei. looking S.E.' (pencil note)

Marble base with relief of two caryatids (only that on the right reproduced) and seated woman as personification of a conquered land, with Greek inscriptions (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6715, 1st-2nd century AD):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 34.1
• 21.1 x 13.9 cm

Frontal and profile view of sculptural head and upper torso (Naples, not identified):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.3 x 21.1 cm
• [on sketch] 'The lips have a projecting ridge around the outline within which line the surface is of copper' (pencil note)

Free-standing marble sculpture of a wounded warrior (Protesilaus), (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 6411, 2nd century AD):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 13.4 x 21.1 cm