Views of ruined conduit (or bath) at Kensington Palace, in the kitchen garden belonging to the palace, built about 1536 by Henry VIII's for Queen Elizabeth when a child:
carbon sketches on paper
loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 52.1
36.8 x 27.0 cm
[on sketch] 'The Conduit / Kensington / July 1858' (pencil note)
Various sketches, including cherub, Britannia welcoming Minerva, female figure (probably Muse) playing the lyre, group of three Muses, and Britannia replenishing the lamp of the genius of art:
Various sketches of memorials with busts, kneeling woman, base of Egyptian statue with bows and foot, and Egyptian scenes featuring Amun and the pharaoh wearing the white crown:
pencil and ink sketches on tracing paper mounted on paper
[on sketch] 'Philomeledes who ? / Eidothea who ? / Thyesties how connected with / Ægysthus / Rhadamanthus who ? / (?) King of Sidon ? / Icarius who ? / Laertes' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Minerva desends to / Ithaca' (pencil note)
Various designs featuring female figures pouring oil into a lamp [left and right middle], profile of head of Egyptian(?) woman [right bottom] and dado(?) pattern [right top]:
pencil drawings and sketches on tracing paper mounted on paper
loose
26.4 x 23.1 cm
[on right top sketch] 'red lines / green orn' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / thick green lines on' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right top sketch] 'Red lines / yellow ground' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'TREASURY' (pencil note)
[on right middle drawing] 'LIFE / ASSURANCE' (pencil note)