Item Bonomi MSS 9.4 (bottom) - Two halves (recto and verso) of a symmetrical composition with Nile-gods binding the sma-symbol, used as the cover of a 1846 publication

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Tracing (on both recto and verso) of each of the two halves of a symmetrical composition with (from bottom to top) Nile-gods binding the sma-symbol, an offering table, a book title in English and the winged sun disc; illustrated cover of Osburn Jr, William, Ancient Egypt, her testimony to the truth of the Bible: being an interpretation of the inscriptions and pictures which remain upon her tombs and temples, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1846 (OEB 146630):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.4 (top) and Bonomi MSS 9.4 (middle)
• 8.7 x 23.7 cm
• [on mount] encircled '12' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr. Moss)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

Preparatory sketch for the cover of Osburn Jr, William 1846. Ancient Egypt, her testimony to the truth of the Bible: being an interpretation of the inscriptions and pictures which remain upon her tombs and temples, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons (OEB 146630).