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View looking South of cataracts on the Nile probably above the Second Cataract in Sudan:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 26 x 15.6 cm
• [on sketch] 'Cataracts looking south / 19 Dec' 1832' (pencil note)

Design for a ceiling:

• inked pencil sketch with watercolour (green and orange) on paper
• loose
• 7.3 x 11.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'Design for a Ceiling' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'LONDON W.C / E 0 / AP 18 / 74' (ink stamp)

Printed note:

• printed text on paper
• loose
• 7.3 x 11.4 cm
• [text]: 'Business Meeting at 7.30 - Free. / H. SHARPE, / Hon. Sec. pro tem. / APRIL, 1874.'

1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].

Copy of the hieroglyphic inscription on a broken stick of Neferhotep, lector priest, probably New Kingdom, formerly in the collection of Rev. R. T. Lieder, and current location not known, from Tell Atrib (TopBib iv.67A):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 12.6 x 20 cm
• [on sketch] 'on a walking staff one line / Lieder's Collection 18 August 69' (ink note)

Auction notice regarding the sale of the collection of Rev. R.T. Lieder:

• printed text on paper
• loose
• 12.6 x 20 cm

Letter (continuation):
-ink text on paper
-loose
-11.5 x 18.5 cm
-[text]
'the reverse is the figure
of the Apteryx and a Wreath
to be composed of the plants
indigenous to the country.'

Letter:

• printed and ink text on paper
• loose
• 11.5 x 18.5 cm
• [text]:

'Sir John Soane's Museum,
13, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
11 April 1866
On the principal face of the
Medal is a figure of Civilisation,
habited in like Minerva, in
the act of prescuting two Wreaths
or crowns, one, for the native the
other for Colonial produce.
Below is the figure of a
Canoe, and round the margin
is to be written NEW ZEALAND
EXHIBITION 1865. On'

New Zealand medal design:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 25.3 x 17.8 cm
• [on sketch] 'NEW ZEALAND' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'HONORARY' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '1865' (pencil note)

Letter:

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 11.3 x 18.3 cm
  -[text]:
  '21 May 1862
  13 Lincoln's Inn Fields
  My dear Sir
  This moment in the receipt of yours
  of this date
  The materials for a perspective
  view of the Schools have been
  in the hands of a draughtsman
  there several weeks. Tomorrow
  if I am well enough (after the
  Duke's party this evening) I will
  call to see if it be done
  Your obedient Servant
  Joseph Bonomi
  John Lee Esq(?) LLD
  x x x'

Tondo design of nude man with headdress and trident(?):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 20.3 x 20.3 cm

Two women collection water from drinking fountain with weather vane:

• pencil and watercolour (blue, red, brown, orange, green) sketch on paper
• loose
• 23 x 37.3 cm

Views of ruined conduit (or bath) at Kensington Palace, in the kitchen garden belonging to the palace, built about 1536 by Henry VIII's for Queen Elizabeth when a child:

• carbon sketches on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 52.1
• 36.8 x 27.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'The Conduit / Kensington / July 1858' (pencil note)

The Tenantry Column at Alnwick in Northumberland:

• watercolour sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 52.1
• 28.6 x 22.6 cm
• [on sketch] 'Alnwick / juin 23 1856' (pencil note)

Fireplace design; frontal view of child caryatid with quiver, with measurements:

• pencil sketch on paper, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
• loose
• 20.4 x 32.9 cm

Memorial design with woman holding ewer and lamp:

• pencil drawing/tracing with ink (brown) wash on tracing paper mounted on paper
• loose
• 25.3 x 38.2 cm (31.4 x 46.8 cm with mount)
• [on drawing] 'Α - Ω' (pencil note)
• [on drawing] 'IN / MEMORY' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Joseph Bonomi 1855' (ink note)

Memorial design with woman holding ewer and lamp:

• pencil drawing/tracing on tracing paper mounted on paper
• loose
• 25.2 x 38.3 cm (27.2 x 49.4 cm with mount)
• [on drawing] 'Α - Ω' (pencil note)
• [on drawing] 'SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Joseph Bonomi Invenit / 19 Beaufort St / Chelsea / Jany 1855' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'JB' (pencil note)

Fireplace design; profile view of child caryatid, with measurements:

• pencil sketch on paper, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
• loose
• 20.4 x 32.9 cm

Fireplace design; notes and sketch of angle:

• pencil text and sketch on paper
• loose
• 20.4 x 32.9 cm
• [on sketch] 'Vestibolo to be copied al(t)ering only the two side and centre ornmts / to be secondo qualita' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Bibblothe Bibblioteca to copied copied Giallo di Sienna / white ornaments' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'To make a map of / England Ireland Scotland / think as time / marking the' (pencil note)

Fireplace design; frontal view, with measurements:

• pencil sketch on paper, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
• loose
• 32.9 x 20.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'granite' (pencil note)

Lunging male nude (probably design for pediment) :

• pencil and watercolour (yellow, black and grey) drawing on paper
• loose
• 22.7 x 28.6 cm

Design of pediment in grid, with some parallels with the East Pediment of the Parthenon:

• pencil and ink (purple) sketch on paper
• loose
• 22.7 x 28.6 cm

Designs of woman holding lamp and note on memorial for J. Bonomi's father (the architect J. Bonomi, 1739-1808) and his four first children, who died of whooping cough in 1852:

• pencil text and sketches on paper
• loose
• 11.3 x 18.4 cm
• [text]:

'To the memory of J. Bonomi the grand father and grandchildren
and four of the grand children
of J. Bonomi architect who died / departed this life
in easter week 1852 -
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away
blessed be the name of the Lord'

Enthroned Britannia(?) flanked by four female figures:

• pencil sketch on paper, with traces of red carbon copy paper
• loose
• 36.9 x 27.2 cm

Memorial to Sir Robert Stanley (d. 1632) in Chelsea Old Church, London:

• pencil and watercolour drawing on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 52.1
• 22.0 x 30.4 cm
• [on verso] 'Stanley Monument Chelsea Church' (ink note)

Notes on the wooden sarcophagus and two coffins of Ir, Dyn. XXVI, from Thebes, formerly in H. Salt, J. Lee and Lord Amherst collections and at Sotheby's in 1921, current location not known (TopBib i2.835):

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 20.6 x 33.2 cm
• [text]:

'Harwell House October 21 1850
The great Sarcophagus in the Chapel
The Goddess Neith N Neith [X1*W24:N1] who is depicted in
full length on the inside of the upper half of the
third coffin is compounded of the hieroglyphic [V39]
in the same manner as the god [Q1\:D4\:A40], likewise depicted
full length, is corresponded of the hieroglyphic [R11].

In Sarcophagi from the necropolis of Thebes it is
usual to find the same Goddess in the likeness of a beautiful
woman, usually, with her arms streached over the deceased
as the heavens streached over the earth. That she represents
the heavens the determinative of her name [N1] is a
voucher, and her figure [C199] in this position over astronomi
cal signs. But if other proof were wanting there is a
stone sarcophagus in the British Museum where she
is sculptured streached out, as the heavens over the
earth, and giving birth to the Planets. In the lower half
of Sarcophagi from Thebes it is usual to find an other
Goddess female figure and not the figure of a man or one man or god in the
likeness of a man or compounded of the [R11] as in the Hartwell
Coffin; and this goddess [X1\:H8-Q1] is the goddess of the earth. as might be naturally suppose(?) This figure She extends her arms up each side of the coffin as if
embracing the deceased or receiving the deceased into her bosom

That the stone Sacrophagus here quoted came from Thebes
I my self can assert being present where the officers of the
Luxor brought it out of the pit

Whence then is the great Sarcophagus in the Chapel
of Hartwell house? The answer is, most probably from Lower Egypt. Most probably from the great necropolis
of Lower Egypt there namely the Necropolis desert of Sakkara of Memphis. First
because Pthah of to whom(underlined) the sign R11 is peculiar(underlined) had a celebrated
Temple at in the city of Memphis and secondly because the hierogly
phics are of the form or style of writing peculiar to
this region of Egypt and thirdly because the form of the outer
case is of the ancient form [Q6] most usual from in this nearby(?)
the most ancient times to the most recent in that
district of Egypt (See ancient inscription in the same
collection)'

Notes (continuation) on the wooden sarcophagus and two coffins of Ir, Dyn. XXVI, from Thebes, formerly in Salt and Amherst collections, current location not known (TopBib i2.835):

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 20.6 x 33.2 cm
• [text]:

'The [V39] hieroglyphic represents the fastening of the

belt worn by the Gods and Kings round the waist

The [R11] hieroglyphic in the upper part of the

staff carried by the Divinity Pthath only

The age of the Sarcophagus is apparently

discovered settled by Mr Sharpe's discovery *

namely after the the time of the Persian

rule with which time the style of the hieroglyphics

agree

Mr Sharpe also remarks the [X1\:X1-Q1] for the

more ancient forms [X1\:H8-Q1]

X See Mr Sharpes notes

The drawing of the heads of the different figures

on all three of the Cases show that they were

all three decorated by the work of the same artist in all

of them there is a remarkable protrusion of the

lips. This remark does not apply to the sculptured

heads on the 2d and 3d case and therefore thus the

Sculptor and painter were not the same person

as there is abundant proof I Bonomi to show in other

monts'

Design for Royal Society of Chemistry medal:

• pencil drawing on paper, with sketched lower legs and feet
• loose
• 22.5 x 22.4 cm
• [on sketch] 'ROYAL / SOCIETY / OF CHEMI / STRY' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '1849' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '8.' (pencil note)

Sketch of front and texts of front and sides of a headless sphinx of Amenophis III, found in the Palace of Diocletian in Split (Croacia) and now in Split, Archaeological Museum (TopBib vii.407):

• ink sketch on paper
• loose
• 14.7 x 9.3 cm