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Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower right)
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Design of tomb decoration, offering bearers and female mourners
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(1796-1878)
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Preliminary printing (only red) of part of three registers of tomb decoration, including offering bearers and female mourners; composition inspired by depictions from various Theban tombs for the engraved plate 83 titled "Great Funeral Procession of a Royal Scribe at Thebes" in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):
- ink (red, brown, and remains of blue) on tracing paper
- mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.13 (upper), Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower middle)
- 6.8 x 11.0 cm
- [on mount] '5' (pencil note, upside down)
- [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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- Preparatory print for plate 83 in the Supplement (1841) of Wilkinson, J. G., The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: including their private life, government, laws, arts, manufactures, religion, agriculture, and early history; derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the accounts of ancient authors. Illustrated by drawings of those subjects, [6] vols. London: John Murray, 1837-1841 (OEB 152658).