Drawings.
Zonder titelPhotographs and correspondence relating to the study and publication of the commemorative scarabs of Amenhotep III.
Zonder titel107 postcards collected in Egypt between 1900-1906 by Miss E. Blyth (objects in Cairo Museum, sites, Cairo views, and Nile views) and 1 postcard of Bethlehem in Palestine.
Zonder titel1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Boardman.
Correspondence concerned with Greek and Egyptian religion, Černý particularly interested in the tradition of carrying cult images on sacred barges.
1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].
Portfolio titled 'Sphinx, Great Pyramid, Memphis etc' (ink)
Original ink title: 'Sphinx, Great Pyramid, / Sesostris heads, Memnons.'
Pencil additions: 'Memphis etc' after 'Great Pyramid,' and lines crossing out 'Sesostris heads, Memnons'
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'B' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Small portfolio or file titled 'Pyramids of Sakkara Lisht etc.' (ink)
Blue ink note at top right corner: '1' encircled in pencil (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Meidum (TopBib iv.89):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 12.1 x 4.9 cm
View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 19 x 10 cm
- [on sketch] 'Medum.' (pencil note, not by Bonomi)
Plans with measurements of underground rooms of step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.401-402):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 17.2 x 11 cm
- [on sketch] 'tuffle' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'block / block' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'North east / corner' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'blocked / tuffle' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'tuffle' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'blocked / up north / stairs' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'North(?) / first / room' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'blocked / middle / rubbish' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'end of masonry' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'blocked / stones / slight corner of 4 feet' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'cavern / ascending / well / blocked / rubbish / stones' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'of stone(?) stairs / Ceilings rough rock / never been smooth / ornaments following(?) the / irregularities of the rock' (pencil note)
Illegible text:
- rubbed out pencil text on paper
- loose
- 10.8 x 15.7 cm
View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 12.2 x 7.9 cm
Views of the pyramid field at Dahshur (TopBib iii2.876):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 11.2 x 8.5 cm
- [on sketch] '1 Mustaba Faraoon' (pencil note)
-[on sketch] '1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5' (pencil note)
View of the Mastabet Faraun at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.434):
- pencil drawing on paper
- loose
- 11.2 x 8.6 cm
View of the Mastabet Faraun at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.434):
- pencil drawing on paper
- loose
- 11.2 x 8.6 cm
- [on drawing] 'MUSTABA FARAOON' (pencil note)
Upper: section of the stone courses of the Mastabet Faraun at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.434):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 11.4 x 8.5 cm
- [on sketch] 'Mustaba Farahoon' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] '6 2 / 6.2 / stones piled up' (pencil note)
Lower: view of the Mastabet Faraun at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.434):
- pencil sketch on paper
- 11.3 x 8.5 cm
Plans with measurements and inscriptions of tiled rooms I and II of step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.400):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 17.1 x 11.3 cm
- [on sketch] 'height of room A 7„4 / doors 5 feet' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] '4 repetitions' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'hieroglyphs over door 22' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'passages blocked up all dismantled masonry stones / masonry destroyed / cavern' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] '3.8 wide / masonry / masonry' (pencil note)
Section with measurements of the Step pyramid in the enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2. 400):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 11.1 x 8.5 cm
View of the North Pyramid of Amenemhet I at El-Lisht (TopBib iv.77):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 19 x 8.1 cm
- [on sketch] 'LISHT' (pencil note)
Walking woman with amphora on head and holding drop spindle:
- partially inked pencil drawing on paper
- loose
- 18.7 x 22.9 cm
View of the upper part of the Great Sphinx at Giza (TopBib iii2.35):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 21.8 x 24.8 cm
- [on sketch] encircled '2' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
'Egypt in Tears'. Encircled design of kneeling woman holding a flower in front of Pyramid complex at Giza, and studies of hands, flower, column and legs:
- pencil sketches, pencil and brown watercolour drawing (woman) and inked sketch (hands) on paper
- loose
- 18.4 x 22.6 cm
- [on sketches] 'Au' (pencil note)
- [on verso] 'EGYPT IN TEARS' (pencil note)
Profile of a female head (design or Modern Egypt):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 7.8 x 7 cm
Scene with Ramesses II, fanbearers, soldiers, and captives on the Inner face of the First Pylon of the Ramesseum, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.433(4)):
- pencil drawing on airmail paper
- loose
- 27.6 x 43 cm
Human figures inside a vaulted building, possibly in Syria (not identified):
- pencil and ink wash sketch on paper
- loose
- 13.3 x 10.4 cm
Portfolio titled 'Thebes' (ink)
Pencil note: 'Medamoud, Karnak and Luxor' (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'C' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
Top: view of a boat being towed (Modern Egypt); second from top: unclear subject, not finished; second from bottom and bottom: views of Philae temple from West (TopBib vi.205):
- pencil sketches on paper
- mounted
- 22.2 x 32.2 cm
- [on sketch] 'passed the / cataracts / Thursday 15 October / 1826' (pencil note, inked year)
- [on sketch] 'Ruined Pylon / Karnac.' (black ink note)
- [on mount] 'Temple near Cataract.' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
- [on mount] encircled '2' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
- [on mount] '5' (black ink note, almost certainly by Bonomi)
View of North face of Tenth Pylon of Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.186):
- pencil sketch on paper
- mounted
- 29.8 x 14.9 cm
- [on mount] 'Karnak' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
- [on mount] encircled '3' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
- [on mount] '6' (black ink note, previously '4', almost certainly by Bonomi)
View from top of mountain at Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank of Thebes, looking East:
- pencil drawing on paper
- loose
- 36.9 x 23.3 cm
- [on drawing] 'A Propylon of Karnak / B Ptolemaic gateway / C Luxor / D E F The 3 remarkable mountains behind Luxor /G Dra Abu Neger/ H the road that leads up to the small temples under the mountains of the valley of Tombs Biban el Moluk/ J K The crude bricks for pylon/ L Crude brick buildings /M the large crude brick propylon/ N Village' (pencil note, by Bonomi) [key to places shown in drawing]
- [on drawing] encircled '5' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
View of stone-built archway with stela(?) beyond at Deir el-Bahari on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.340) (?):
- pencil sketch on paper
- loose
- 36.9 x 23.3 cm