Designs
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Portfolio titled 'Designs / JB.' (ink) Pencil notes: 'Designs / Designs & Mottos / Complete / Vol 1'.
Standing man leaning on stick
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Standing man leaning on stick:
pencil drawing on tracing paper
loose, adjacent to page 2
10.9 x 19.4 cm
Designs for ewers
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Designs for ewers:
pencil sketches on paper
mounted on loose paper, together with Bonomi MSS 41.5, adjacent to page 2
20.6 x 13.5 cm
Shepherd carrying lamb and Luke 15:5 verse
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Shepherd carrying lamb and Luke 15:5 verse:
inked pencil sketch on paper
loose, adjacent to page 1
7.5 x 12.3 cm
[on sketch] 'καὶ ἐὑρὼν ἐπιτίθησιν ἐπὶ τους / ωμους εἑαυτοῦ χαιρων / L 15 5' (pencil note) [translation: 'and when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing']
Note on the Egyptian gods
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Note on the Egyptian gods:
ink and pencil text on paper
loose, adjacent to page 11
37.0 x 22.6 cm
[ink text] 'On the Egyptian Gods. / It is not easy to make a complete list of the / numerous gods that were worshipped in Egypt. / The priests were in the habit of increasing the / number in two ways; first by making a / second and third of the same name, with / some slight change of character, and secondly by / writing the names and characters of two and even / three to make a fourth. The more important / however are as follows. / Amun Ra, the god of Thebes who sits on his throne / in the sculpture R . In the group of statues / S he is embracing the king as his son.'
[pencil text]: 'Chem god San or Janus. / Nile carrying not water but harvest / figure half male half female / with lotus or lily on his head / Chonso with the moon on his head as seen / when two days x(?), the circular moon / within the horns of the new moon'
Plato at Heliopolis discoursing on the immortality of the soul with Egyptians and Jews, with studies of scene and Jew
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Plato at Heliopolis discoursing on the immortality of the soul with Egyptians and Jews, with studies of scene and Jew:
pencil sketches on paper
loose, adjacent to page 11
37.0 x 22.6 cm
[on sketch] 'Plato at Heliopolis discoursing / on the Immortality of the Soul / with the Egyptians & Jews' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Trial Scene' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Jews' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Greek' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Plato' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Egyptians' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Neath the Great Mother' (pencil note) [continuation of note in Bonomi MSS 41.26 (verso)]
The sacred Apis bull predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
The sacred bull Apis predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus:
inked pencil sketch on paper
loose, adjacent to page 11
37.0 x 22.3 cm
[on sketch] 'Germanicus consults the Bull Apis by offering him food' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'the Bull Apis returns an unfavourable answer to Germanicus by refusing to eat out of / his hands' (ink note)
Zenobia enters Egypt, with cartouches of Cleopatra
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Zenobia enters Egypt, with cartouches of Cleopatra:
pencil sketch on paper, ink cartouche
loose, adjacent to page 10
36.8 x 22.7 cm
[on sketch] 'Zenobia enters Egypt' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Asiatics' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Greeks' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Egyptians' (pencil note)
Scene with Greek soldiers, an Egyptian king and soldiers, an a Jewish captive king
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Scene with Greek soldiers, an Egyptian king and soldiers, an a Jewish captive king:
pencil sketch on paper
loose, adjacent to page 10
39.8 x 24.8 cm
[on sketch] 'No 6.' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Greeks' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Jew from / Nineveh' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Egyptian soldiers' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Greek / soldiers / spears' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'body / armour' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Egyptian / King' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Jewish / King captive' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Egyptian guards / soldiers bows' (pencil note)
[on verso] '6' (pencil note)
Diana appearing in a dream to sick Arsinoe
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Diana appearing in a dream to sick Arsinoe:
partially inked pencil sketch on paper, with glued-on flap
loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 41.20
36.4 x 22.5 cm
[on flap] 'Three Egyptian gods' (pencil note)
[on flap] 'Diana' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'No 15' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Diana tells Arsinoe that the removal of her statue from Syria / to Egypt was the cause of her illness.' (ink note)
Chair design
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Chair design:
partially inked pencil sketch on paper
mounted
18.8 x 22.8 cm
[on mount] '8' (pencil note)
Seated man
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Seated man:
pencil sketch on tracing paper
loose, adjacent to page 1
8.4 x 20.7 cm
Murder of the sacred Apis bull by Cambyses II, with study of the king's hand
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Murder of the sacred Apis bull by Cambyses II, with study of the king's hand:
pencil sketches on paper
loose, adjacent to page 6
39.5 x 24.8 cm
[on sketch] 'No 8' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Egyptian priests in despair.' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'The Bull dying' (ink note)
[on sketch] 'Persian king & attendants' (ink note)
Stooped old Jew leaning on stick
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Stooped old Jew leaning on stick:
pencil sketch on tracing paper
loose, adjacent to page 5
14.2 x 18.4 cm
Crouched putto sleeping
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Crouched putto sleeping:
pencil sketch on paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 41.13 and Bonomi MSS 41.14
14.2 x 10.8 cm
[on mount] '4' (pencil note)
Seated female figure with nude child on her lap
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Seated female figure with nude male child on her lap:
pencil drawing on tracing paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 41.13 and Bonomi MSS 41.15
13.8 x 11.1 cm
[on drawing] 'JB' (pencil note)
[on mount] '4' (pencil note)
Standing mother and child
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Standing mother and child:
pencil sketch on tracing paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 41.14 and Bonomi MSS 41.15
10.3 x 15.0 cm
[on sketch] 'JB' (pencil note)
[on mount] '4' (pencil note)
Praying angel
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Praying angel:
partially inked pencil sketch on tracing paper
mounted
11.9 x 15.7 cm
[on sketch] 'JB' (pencil note)
[on mount] '3' (pencil note)
Joseph riding in state
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Joseph riding in state:
pencil sketch on paper
loose, adjacent to page 2
48.5 x 29.4 cm
[on sketch] 'separate Pharaoh / from Joseph's horse' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'JOSEPH RIDING IN STATE.' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'No. 1.' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'And Pharaoh made him ride in the second chariot which he had, / and they cried before him, Bow the knee. / Genesis XLI. 43.' (ink note)
Note on furniture
Zur Zwischenablage hinzufügen
Note on furniture:
pencil note on lined paper
mounted on loose paper, adjacent to page 2
9.0 x 8.8 cm (10.4 x 11.1 cm with mount)
[text]
''Most judicious and valuable is a / deal table stained black with ink it / is agreeable to the eyes at candle / light and highly condusive to the / maintenance of the
Also to be recommended a chair / made of boxes that would take the / shape [x] so conducive to longev- / ity as it is the position of complete / repose''.