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Nude young Lapith holds a centaur's head from behind with his left; marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope XXVII) (London, British Museum, reg. 1816,0610.11 - BM Sculpture 316, 438-432 BC)

Nude young Lapith holds a centaur's head from behind with his left; marble metope from the Parthenon (South metope XXVII) (London, British Museum, reg. 1816,0610.11 - BM Sculpture 316, 438-432 BC):

  • ink sketch on treated tracing paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 40.20
  • 27.8 x 21.9 cm

Circular design of Britannia replenishing the lamp of the genius of art, with annotations and sketches

Circular design of Britannia replenishing the lamp of the genius of art, with annotations and sketches:

  • print on paper
  • mounted
  • 20.9 x 24.1 cm
  • [on print] 'no mouth see drawing' (pencil note)
  • [on print] 'in' (pencil note) [different examples]
  • [on print] 'out' (pencil note) [different examples]
  • [on print] 'cut away' (pencil note) [different examples]
  • [on print] 'ring lines all the same thickness' (pencil note)
  • [on print] 'under' (pencil note)

Two angels flanking a door

Two angels flanking a door:

  • pencil drawing on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 40.15 and 40.17
  • 24.5 x 12.8 cm
  • [on drawing] 'JB' (pencil note)

England. London. Trafalgar Square. Nelson's Column.

Print of "Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square. &c." in London (England), by J. Shury, published by J. Harwood, with addition of statue of Britannia and other statues in watercolour:

  • print with watercolour (grey and brown) on paper
  • mounted
  • 18.9 x 15.7 cm
  • [on print] 'J. Shury. sculp' (printed note)
  • [on print] '12, Gt Carter Lane, Doctors Commons.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'Nelson's Column. Trafalgar Square. &c.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'PLACE DE TRAFALGAR.' (printed note)
  • [on print] 'DIE NELSON SAULE.' (printed note)

Rubbing of a hieroglyphic inscription on an object thought to come from Carthage (not identified)

Rubbing of a hieroglyphic inscription on an object thought to come from Carthage (not identified) (TopBib vii.367A):

  • ink rubbing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
  • mounted
  • 4 x 16.2 cm (11.2 x 17.6 cm with mount)
  • [on rubbing mount] 'This is a rubbing / from some Hieroglyphics / found among the ruins / of Carthage. / Given to me by / Doctor Lee of Aylesbury / 1840' (ink note)
  • [on mount] '6' (pencil note)

Note from the voyage to France (second incomplete version)

Note from the voyage to France (second incomplete version):

  • pencil text on paper
  • mounted
  • 4.8 x 6.5 cm
  • [text] 'In the beginning of the / Greek war a french vessel / conveying arms was cap / tured by greek pirates and / taken to Cassot, a small / island near Crete (Candia)'
  • [on mount] '4' (pencil note, by Bonomi)

Note from the voyage to France

Note from the voyage to France:

  • pencil text on paper
  • mounted
  • 4.8 x 19.5 cm
  • [text] 'Cassot island near / and belonging to / Crete (Candia) in this / island about the begin[nin]g / of the Greek war a ship / belonging to the french / ship conveying arms / which was taken by / pirates and conveyed / to this island who after / taking the contents / permitted the ship to / go. Soon after this / event came to the / island a large french vessel / of war and a smaller / one to demand the / restitution of the / arms which was / given up The captain / of the larger vessel / finding two (?) / slaves one tall the / other short bought / them of the master / The Tall slave is the / sister of a man / in the service of / Husseyn son of H II M A called / Krasheed'
  • [on mount] 'This note written on board a Steemer / belonging to Muhammad Ali at Marseilles / at the request of the brother of the person to be / enquired for on my arrival in Paris / The brother a slave that accompanied / the son of M Ali on the voyage from Egypt / to France His office was to wait on the / young prince and to rub his feet' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '4' (pencil note)

Cartouches of Amasis

Cartouches of Amasis:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Middle and Bottom]
  • 5.4 x 6.2 cm
  • [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egypt. Maidum. Pyramid of Snefru

View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Bottom]
  • 5.3 x 5.5 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Monday sunrise 8 of October' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egyptian sistrum and floral motifs

Egyptian sistrum and floral motifs:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
  • 5.4 x 5.5 cm
  • [on sketches] 'Job before 28 days' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Note

Note:

  • pencil text on paper
  • partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
  • 5.4 x 5.5 cm
  • [text] '1843 / Cairo to Wady Halfa / and back in 44 days / journey completed by the / end of September / Nº/ 24 Edinboro or Quarterly account of / Eastern Africa' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egypt. Thebes. West Bank. Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49). Hall. Mourning women and child from funeral procession

Mourning women and child behind the [coffin being dragged] from a scene depicting the funeral procession of the deceased in the Hall of Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.91.(4).I):

  • pencil and watercolor (black and pink) sketch on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Middle and Bottom]
  • 15.7 x 12.1 cm
  • [on mount] 'Two young women a child / and a grey headed old woman / putting dust on their heads / at the departure of the boat / that carries the mummy of / some relation or benefactor / to the Tomb / Drawn from the wall of a / tomb at Gorna' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'Tomb of Nefer Hotep (49)' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
  • [on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

Egypt. Saqqara. Architectonical fragment (perhaps jamb or pillar)

Architectonical fragment (perhaps jamb or pillar) mentioning "the Osiris Nehehniotef, justified" from an unidentified tomb at Saqqara, current location not known (TopBib iii.2.749A), and perhaps related to the stela of Nehehniotef, Dyn. XIX, from a tomb at Saqqara, formerly in Passalacqua collection, now in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 7273 (TopBib iii.2.733):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Bottom]
  • 3.3 x 9.1 cm
  • [on mount] '2' (pencil note)
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