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Bonomi MSS 9.16 (lower right)
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Design of personified djed-pillar (after Dubois)
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(1796-1878)
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Tracing (on verso) of a design of a djed-pillar after plate 16 in Champollion le Jeune, J. F., Panthéon égyptien: collection des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments. Figures d'après les dessins de L. J. J. Dubois. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1823 (OEB 136967), in preparation for the engraved plate 25 (part 1) in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):
- pencil tracing on tracing paper
- mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.16 (upper) and Bonomi MSS 9.16 (lower left)
- 12.6 x 15.6 cm
- [on sketch] 'y / R - y - gr / R / y / Bk / y / R / w / R - R' (pencil notes)
- [on sketch] 'with (?) / and Frog gods' (pencil note)
- [on mount] encircled '24' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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- Preparatory sketches for some of the plates in in 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). Specifically plate 25.