Item Bonomi MSS 9.7 (lower) - Composition with two registers of deities, inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications, together with a sketch with two figures (Classical)

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Pencil tracing (on verso) of two registers of deities; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plates in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841); upper register with an unfinished design of five forms of Amun (plate 22) and lower register with design with two forms of Satet (right) and and two forms of Khnum (left) (plate 21); together with an ink sketch (on recto) of man drinking water from amphora being held by woman (Classical):

• pencil tracing (verso) and ink sketch (recto) on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.7 (upper)
• 20.7 x 26.1 cm
• [on mount] '8' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '15' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• Preparatory sketches for some of the plates 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 plates 21 and 22.