Item Bonomi MSS 24.8 (upper recto) - Three seated figures with four attendants

1 item

Three seated figures with four attendants:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to p. 7; too small to be the item originally mounted there
• 8.5 x 6.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'Ld Prudhoe Champollion Defterdar bay / and the artist drinking coffee' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'South of Nour' (pencil note) [does not refer to sketch]
• [on mount] 'glazed' (pencil note) [does not refer to sketch]

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• This event probably took place on 22 September 1828 and is recorded in Champollion's journal.
• Another and slightly different version of this sketch is still with the family; it is a pen and ink sketch and the pencil note reads: 'Kiosk on the Nile at Old Cairo / Servants (standing) [?] (standing) Duke of Northumberland (= Lord Prudhoe, seated) Champollion (seated) Defterdar Bay (seated) [?] (standing) Bonomi (seated)'.
• Other versions existed, including at least one in colour, as stated in a letter dated 26 May 1831 from Joseph Bonomi, Cairo, to Lord Prudhoe, Northumberland House, London.
• We are grateful to Neil Cooke for corrections and this additional information.