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England. Essex. Harwich.

England. Essex. Harwich.

Views of Harwich in Essex, with detailed notes:

  • pencil and ink sketches on paper
  • loose
  • 35.1 x 24.5 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Landguard ft' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'R Orwell' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'you must shew this as a point in distance' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Languard Fort / 3 miles' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'grass fields' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'osses' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'grass slope' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'old houses' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '...hi]gher / ...]an down' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Martello towers / sunk in ditch level / with ground. / This is a much larger tower / than the common Martellos / would hold 3000 men' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '1 White Church' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '2 white Lighthouse' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '3 pretty library / 4 cement works / 5 Distant land / 6 flag staff / 7 panorama when I (underlined) was there / Camera (?)' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] '8 promenade see the posts at the end / and a crane' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Harwich 10 years ago / monumental objects are all coeval slate | stone' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'another stone / White l[ight]house lower down on the / shore - or on a promenade / tis octagon I think' (ink note)
England. London. Trafalgar Square. Nelson's Column.

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)
Europe uniting Asia and America

Europe uniting Asia and America

Europe uniting Asia and America:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted
  • 26.6 x 32.0 cm
  • [on sketch] 'AMERICA' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'EVROPA' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'ASIA' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'J Bonomi del.' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Europe uniting Asia and America / She extends to them Commerce and Peace / The wheels indicate the means, viz, the rail road' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'America youthful / attired in the costume / of the Mexicans stands / on the right of Europe / the position that / continent has with / respect to Europe / others the other two' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Asia more matronly / attired in more ample / garments stands on / the left of Europe' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Europe younger than / Asia wears the mural / crown surmounted by / a dome and a cross as / this division of the earth / entirely Xtian' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '10' (ink note)
Ewer and lamp design

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)
Exterior of a house

Exterior of a house

View of the exterior of a house perhaps in Egypt:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 18.4 x 11.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'a [?] / restauratio' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'I.G.' (ink note)
Figure from plate 11 of the Compositions from the tragedies of Aeschylus, designed by John Flaxma...

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.'
Fireplace design; notes and sketch of angle

Fireplace design; notes and sketch of angle

Fireplace design; notes and sketch of angle:

  • pencil text and sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 20.4 x 32.9 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Vestibolo to be copied al(t)ering only the two side and centre ornmts / to be secondo qualita' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Bibblothe Bibblioteca to copied copied Giallo di Sienna / white ornaments' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'To make a map of / England Ireland Scotland / think as time / marking the' (pencil note)
Five ornamental/commemorative column designs from ancient Greek pottery decoration, traced from p...

Five ornamental/commemorative column designs from ancient Greek pottery decoration, traced from publications

Five ornamental/commemorative column designs from ancient Greek pottery decoration, traced from publications. Upper left: column shaft with decoration on top; upper middle: Ionic column; upper right: Doric column on altar; lower left: column or pillar with palmette [detail from Tischbein, W., Collection of engravings from ancient vases of Greek workmanship discovered in sepulchres in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies but chiefly in the neighbourhood of Naples during the course of the years MDCCLXXXIX and MDCCLXXXX, now in the possession of Sir W. Hamilton..., vol. III (1795), pl. 51]; lower right: herm and part of altar.

  • pencil tracings on tracing paper
  • loose
  • 15.4 x 27.3 cm
  • [on tracing] 'Vol II Pl. 96' (pencil note) and erased 'Pl. 72'
  • [on tracing] 'Vol II Pl. 89' (pencil note)
  • [on tracing] 'Vol II Pl. 72' (pencil note)
  • [on tracing] 'Tischbein Vol III' (pencil note)
  • [on tracing] 'Vol II Pl 97' (pencil note)
Floral design

Floral design

Floral design:

  • pencil and ink sketch on paper, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
  • loose
  • 20.1 x 22.7 cm
  • [on sketch] 'BGRSBOBGRG / COYPGRG /GRGBOBPYPBOBGRG' (pencil notes)
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