Portrait (profile view) of Sir Long Thomas Roberts, based on a death mask made by Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823):

• ink drawing on paper
• mounted
• 19.0 x 24.7 cm

Three-quarter view of the Townley Caryatid (London, British Museum, reg. 1805,0703.44 - BM Sculpture 304.M, c. 140-160 AD):

• pencil drawing with sketched head and left arm on paper, originally camera lucida tracing
• mounted
• 18.0 x 26.0 cm
• [on mount] '11' (ink note)

Two pencil sketches of sculptural fragments with Greek inscriptions; (left) circular motif and (right) eyes:

• pencil sketches on paper
• loose
• 12.6 x 7.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'ΕΥΤΥΧΙΑ ΥΨΕΙΣΤΩΣ ΕΥΧΗΝ' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'eΙCΙΔΤΗΔΙΙΥ · ΨΙCΤω' (pencil note)

Diagram of the pediment of the temple of Jupiter at Elis:

• ink sketch on paper
• loose
• 21.6 x 7.3 cm
• [on sketch] 'all the figures / are the work of / a Peonian of Meride / a town of Thrace' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Pediment of the temple of / Jupiter Olympius Elis' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'Pausanius. BV. / Description of Elis' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'CLADÉE' / 'UNKNOWN' / 'UNKNOWN' / 'MYRTIL' / 'STEROPE' / 'ŒNOMAUS' / 'JUPITER' / 'PELOPS' / 'HIPPODAMIA' / 'L'ECUYER CILLA or SPHERUS' / '1 - 2 } PALFRENIERS' / 'ALPHEE' (ink labels)

Side of sarcophagus:

• pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 12.8 x 19.5 cm
• [on drawing] 'No 708 B - the side' (pencil note, with remains of erased previous note)

Unfinished sketch of Bonomi MSS 39.13 (recto) :

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 12.9 x 13.3 cm
• [on sketch] 'OSCHORI DORIS' (pencil note)

Four dancing figures (woman, man and two nude satyrs), probably from ancient Greek pottery decoration, with cut off lyre on left:

• ink drawings on paper mounted on card
• loose
• 15.9 x 8.1 cm

Sketch of a ceiling boss (?) with elaborate floral decoration, and calculations:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 11.6 x 18.3 cm

Portfolio titled 'Designs / JB.' (ink)
Pencil notes: 'Designs / Completed'.

Britannia replenishing the lamp of the genius of art in grid:

• inked pencil drawing on tracing paper
• mounted
• 29.2 x 23.5 cm

Britannia replenishing the lamp of the genius of art in grid:

• inked pencil unfinished drawing on tracing paper
• mounted
• 27.7 x 23.4 cm

Portfolio titled 'Designs. / JB' (ink)
Ink table of contents (not complete) on piece of paper partially glued to cover:
-'Designs'
-'1'
-'2'
-'3 Angel good'
-'4 Designs Mother and Child'
-'5'
-'6'
-'7'
-'8 Chair'
-'9 Mother and Child'
-'10 Exhibition Book'
-'11'

Pencil notes partially covered by piece of paper glued to cover: 'Various designs / Complete'.

Seated woman holding bridal veil:

• inked drawing on paper
• loose, adjacent to page 1
• 26.6 x 25.9 cm
• [on drawing] 'JB' (pencil note)

Seated man:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 1
• 8.4 x 20.7 cm

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

Standing man leaning on stick:

• pencil drawing on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 2
• 10.9 x 19.4 cm

Kneeling man praying over dead child, with detail of man's head:

• pencil sketches on paper
• mounted on loose paper, adjacent to page 2
• 13.5 x 20.6 cm
• [on sketch] 'Rouen 13 Sep 1844' (pencil note)

Seated woman attended by two standing women and man using compasses (probably Eratosthenes estimating Earth's circumference):

• inked pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 2
• 33.4 x 25.9 cm

Standing statue of Britannia (probably design for lighthouse):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted on loose paper, adjacent to page 2
• 6.4 x 10.2 cm (10.4 x 11.1 cm with mount)

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)

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)

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)

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'

Portfolio titled 'Designs / JB.' (ink)
Pencil notes: 'Designs / Designs & Mottos / Complete / Vol 1'.

Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.

Complete papers (see catalogue for more details).

View of the settlement at Bilbeis:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 35.5 x 25.9 cm
• [on mount] 'Belbies from the SW.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '2' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Belbeis from the S.W. / 25th Feb. 1843.' (pencil note)

A mosque near Abu Zaabal:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 35.5 x 25 cm
• [on mount] 'Mosque N.N.E. Abu Zaabel.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '6' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] ''Mosque N.N.E. Abu Zaabel / 12th Jan 1843' (pencil note)

Birket el-Fil:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 35.3 x 25.8 cm
• [on mount] 'Berket el Hiel from Seba el Muchfer.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '8' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Birket El Fiel from Seba El [xxx]fer(?). / 30th Jan. 1843.' (pencil note)

Mokattam Hills viewed from Giza:

• watercolour
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 022
• 26 x 17.8 cm
• [on mount] 'The Mōkăttăn hills from the Well near the Pyramids of Gizeh.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'The Mōkăttăm hills from the Well / near to Pyramids of Gizeh 1st Dec. 1842.'