View from top of mountain at Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank of Thebes, looking East:
pencil drawing on paper
loose
36.9 x 23.3 cm
[on drawing] 'A Propylon of Karnak / B Ptolemaic gateway / C Luxor / D E F The 3 remarkable mountains behind Luxor /G Dra Abu Neger/ H the road that leads up to the small temples under the mountains of the valley of Tombs Biban el Moluk/ J K The crude bricks for pylon/ L Crude brick buildings /M the large crude brick propylon/ N Village' (pencil note, by Bonomi) [key to places shown in drawing]
[on drawing] encircled '5' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
[text]: 'You are not too late for the money - / What do you think we shall have to pay Abdorahman(?) / for the chalks? / Will you be so good as to see / what you can make of the / side chamber Karnac - Another / [?] ! [underlined] but we have the power / of cutting off his [?]. You / had better deduce it by Camera lucida / in order to get the two exact figures. / The small names of kings below must / be done in large over the plate'
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt. / JB / Above the 2nd Cataract' (ink) Pencil note: 'Above the 2d Cataract' Pencil note: '11 (second 1 added over 6)' Ink table of contents (not complete) on piece of paper glued to cover:
View of the ruins of the Temple of Aphaia (formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius) with a lounging figure on the island of Aegina in Greece:
View of island with constructions named Abd Doom above the Second Cataract of the Nile in Sudan: -pencil sketch on paper -partially mounted on p. 2, together with Bonomi MSS 24.3 (upper) -18.4 x 7.6 cm -[on sketch] 'Dec 9' (pencil note) -[on mount] 'glazed' (pencil note) -[on mount] 'Middle of Nile / Convent' (pencil notes) -[on mount] 'Abd doom' (pencil note) -[on mount] 'see other side' (pencil note)