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Mother reading with daughter:

• inked pencil sketch with pencil frame on paper
• partially attached, together with Bonomi MSS 42.6
• 10.2 x 14.1 cm
• [on sketch] 'JB' (pencil note)

Two kneeling women mourning next to a sarcophagus:

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially attached, together with Bonomi MSS 42.6
• 10.2 x 14.1 cm

Hourglass design:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 42.5
• 14.5 x 15.9 cm
• [on sketch] 'FUTURE / N - O / PAST' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'FU' (pencil note, erased)
• [on sketch] 'PRESENT' (pencil note)

Sketches of rider on horseback, angel, and warrior:

• pencil sketches on paper
• partially attached
• 25.9 x 19.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'Α+Ω' (pencil note)

Three standing figures (probably women) appearing in audience before seated figure (probably man):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially attached
• 25.9 x 19.2 cm

Ewer and lamp design:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 42.10
• 18.3 x 16.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'PRUDENCE' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'PR' (pencil note, erased)
• [on sketch] '[P]RUD - ENCE' (pencil note, erased)

Crouched putto sleeping on a tortoise's back, with study:

• pencil sketches on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 42.8
• 13.7 x 10.9 cm

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

Print with man kneeling at the foot of the cross, angel, and Mary's assumption into Heaven:

• print on paper
• mounted
• 21.6 x 23.4 cm
• [on print] 'Rough Proof' (pencil note)

Two men wrestling:

• pencil and carbon drawing on paper
• mounted
• 18.7 x 27.2 cm
• [on drawing] 'An 1816' (pencil note)

Male nude studies:

• pencil and carbon sketches on paper
• mounted
• 17.9 x 27.8 cm

Note on a marble statue in the collection of Dr Lee of Hartwell and on the artistic representation of the effects of alcohol in the human body:

• pencil text on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 43.1
• 11.1 x 18.1 cm
• [text] 'Statue of a man sleeping on a / wine skin in Pentelic marble. / S of this proper line long wide This statue in the / collection of Dr Lee of Hartwell is of excellent sculpture and probably / by an Athenian artist since it / is made carved out of a marble found in / the vicinity of Athens. / Very early indeed did the thinking and in / telligent man of antiquity such as poets / painters and sculptors describe and / pourtray each in with admirable truth the effects / of persistant indulgence in alcoholic / beverages on the intellect and on the / external configuration of the human body / X They indeed had more than we have and better'

Note on a marble statue in the collection of Dr Lee of Hartwell and on the artistic representation of the effects of alcohol in the human body (continuation), with two sketches of a big-bellied man:

• pencil note on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 43.1
• 11.1 x 18.1 cm
• [text] 'opportunities of delineating its effects / on the contour of the human fabric / from the constant exposure nature of the the costume (sic = custom) / X The of those days in the hot climates / of Greece and Egypt being seldom more / than a single piece of cotton or woollen / cloth which was thrown about the body / at the will or caprice of the wearer always most / generally leaving a considerable portion of its / surface to the action of light and air and / thus giving an opportunity to sculptor and painter to / make himself familiar with the configuration of the human body / under all circumstances and this is perhaps what made / them such masters of in the art of sculpture / and very early ...(?) X and as this beautiful / work ...(?) been it puortrays so faithfully / the effect of his soul(?) indulgence in alcohol / to this truth of which we are / all … … …(?) We scarcely need the aid / of the wine skin on which the figure is reclining in his / drunken offers(?) to inform us of the imbibe of the above in a salty eye the figure we need not the fulsome work of / to …(?) the abdomen scarcely covered scalp the ample beard / sufficiently'

Reclining figure of Christ(?) [no wounds depicted] :

• pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
• 12.2 x 9.8 cm
• [on drawing] '...(?)' (pencil note)

Semi-circular design of scene from the life of Christ, with three women and child holding hands beneath cross:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 22.8 x 18.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'JB' (pencil note)

Walking woman with amphora on head and holding drop spindle:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 18.5 x 22.7 cm

Woman writing or reading:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 18.7 x 22.0 cm

Sketches of woman pouring oil into a lamp:

• pencil sketches on paper
• partially attached
• 26.5 x 36.0 cm

Sketch of woman pouring oil into a lamp (not finished):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially attached
• 26.5 x 36.0 cm

Studies of feet:

• pencil tracings on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 43.9
• 9.4 x 12.5 cm

Man in historical costume carrying bride:

• ink, pencil, and carbon drawing on paper
• mounted
• 23.6 x 31.4 cm
• [on drawing] 'Decbr 3d 1828' (ink note)

Portfolio titled 'Designs / JB' (ink)
Pencil note: '3'
Ink table of contents on piece of paper glued to cover:

• '3' (pencil note)
• '1 Sthodart's Canterbury arranged for / sculpture'
• '2 Days of the Week as seals'
• '3'
• '4 5 Ruined Pylon Karnak / Transferred to another book'
• '6 (added over 5) 7 Quarrantine Marseilles / Transferred do do'
• '7 (added over 6) 8 Profile sculpture St Jacques Bruges'
• '8 (added over 7) 9 Outline priest men playing long / trumpets supported on the shoulders / of others'
• '9 (added over 8) 10 Design for Rail road Seal'.

Designs of cavalry:

• partially inked pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 23.7 x 30.2 cm
• [on mount] '1' (ink note)

Right half of Greek temple pediment:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 44.8 and Bonomi MSS 44.9
• 24.3 x 14.3 cm
• [on mount] '3' (ink note)

Female nude studies and figure carrying platter:

• pencil sketches on tracing paper
• mounted
• 33.5 x 11.7 cm
• [on mount] '4' (ink note)

Jesus with the Apostles, with studies of some of the figures:

• ink sketches on paper, with traces of pencil
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 44.13
• 14.3 x 9.7 cm
• [on mount] '8' (ink note)

Profile of woman from Tomb of the de Gros Family (1530) in St James' Church, Bruges, Belgium, with sketch of tomb:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi 0MSS 44.12
• 16.8 x 24.1 cm
• [on sketch] 'St Jacques Bruges / Recumbent effigy / of Lady, daughter to / parents lying / above'
• [on mount] '8' (ink note)

Priests playing long trumpets supported on the shoulders of young men playing rattles:

• print on paper
• mounted
• 38.9 x 26.0 cm
• [on mount] '9' (ink note)

Europe uniting Asia and America:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 26.6 x 32.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'AMERICA' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'EVROPA' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'ASIA' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'J Bonomi del.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Europe uniting Asia and America / She extends to them Commerce and Peace / The wheels indicate the means, viz, the rail road' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'America youthful / attired in the costume / of the Mexicans stands / on the right of Europe / the position that / continent has with / respect to Europe / others the other two' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Asia more matronly / attired in more ample / garments stands on / the left of Europe' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Europe younger than / Asia wears the mural / crown surmounted by / a dome and a cross as / this division of the earth / entirely Xtian' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '10' (ink note)

Design of mourning scene with angels (perhaps sculptural group):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 44.1
• 15.7 x 10.1 cm