Rubbing of a hieroglyphic inscription on an object thought to come from Carthage (not identified) (TopBib vii.367A):
ink rubbing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
mounted
4 x 16.2 cm (11.2 x 17.6 cm with mount)
[on rubbing mount] 'This is a rubbing / from some Hieroglyphics / found among the ruins / of Carthage. / Given to me by / Doctor Lee of Aylesbury / 1840' (ink note)
View of the First Pylon of the Small Temple of Medinet Habu, looking East towards the Colossi of Memnon, on the West Bank of Thebes, not finished (TopBib ii.462):
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 exposurenature 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'