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Text on church at Alnwick
Bonomi MSS 45.87 (verso) · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Text on church at Alnwick:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 15.7 x 11.5 cm
  • [text]:

'The church at Alnwick a gothic building

once a beautiful and highly adorned

edifice but now from the injuditious

additions and alterations especially

that usual one of taking away

pillars in order to make the pulpit

more generally seen from all corners

of the church thus by throwing two arches

into one thus weak increas

ing the lateral pressure endangering

the roof which perhaps on that

account has been restored in the it was found

ornamental gothic necessary

to restore in the side isles

however the original oak beams remain'

Incomplete note
Bonomi MSS 45.89 (verso) · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Incomplete note:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 11.6 x 11.3 cm
  • [text] '(?) to denounce all this can be c- / thus is as(?) (?)'
Text
Bonomi MSS 45.94 (verso) · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Text:

  • pencil and coloured (black) pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 11.1 x 9.0 cm
  • [text]: 'The cost of die / the sign of a medal / for 10 pounds and / the cost of a die / for such a medal'
Draft of a letter
Bonomi MSS 45.95 (verso) · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Draft of a letter:

  • pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 28.3 x 8.0 cm
  • [text]:

'My Lord Duke
I inclose according to your request
the three italian drawings and three 2
modifications of three designs as well as / and one as a substitute for the arched chimney piece
a drawing of the chimney piece at Syon
with its modification. If your Grace
approves of Syon modification and you / of any of them(?) the working the working drawings could be made either here or in Rome from / the sketches sufficiently indicate the design / the small drawings
desire to send to Italy a cast of the / the details

new(?) figure of the boy and the mouldings
I would be undertake superintending the casting
of the boy and the mouldings'

Dog
Bonomi MSS 46.10 (recto) · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Dog:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 46.9
  • 12.1 x 5.7 cm
Bonomi MSS 46.13 (recto) · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Profile view of woman with helmet:

  • pencil sketch on paper mounted on paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 46.12 and Bonomi MSS 46.14-15
  • 9.0 x 12.3 cm (11 x 17.3 cm with mount)
Rectangular shapes
Bonomi MSS 46.13 (verso) · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Rectangular shapes:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 46.12 and Bonomi MSS 46.14-15
  • 17.3 x 11 cm
Seated Diana
Bonomi MSS 46.16 · Item
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection

Seated Diana:

  • ink sketch on tracing paper
  • mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 46.17
  • 18.6 x 14.2 cm