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Written Items Relating to Joseph Bonomi, Architect, in the RIBA Drawings Collection, [1794-1795]
Description by Bonomi of his design for the stables and other out-offices at! Lambton Hall, Co. Durham, (3p. on 1 leaf, holograph), no date [1795].
Letter by Joseph Bonomi, 1838 Jan 15, 11 Argyll Place [London], to T. L. Donaldson, Hon Sec RIBA
Bonomi describes the obelisk standing near the village of Materiah, Egypt (supposed to be the site of Heliopolis). He presents to the RIBA a cast made from a slate model of the obelisk made for Lord Prudhoe. He also presents a plaster impression of a medallion of Queen Victoria executed in the egyptian style, which he had proposed for the coinage.
Letter by Joseph Bonomi from Argyll Place, London, to the RIBA, 22 Dec 1836
Bonomi is having casts made of fragments of the Karnak obelisks, at the expence of Mr Hay [Robert Hay, 1799-1863, egyptologist], to illustrate a dissertation to be read at the RIBA on 16 January. He also offers to exhibit a copy, being made for Lord Prudhoe, of the larger of the two standing Karnak obelisks.
Letter by Joseph Bonomi to C R Cockerell, no date; holograph, signed, ill
In answer to Cockerell's enquiries [re. Egypt]: gives details on the "Fayoum" [Faiyum] canal [seems to be referring to the canalisation of the river Bahr Yusuf, in El Faiyum province], also Egyptian brick and stonework and the obelisks at Luxor and Karnak. Includes rough illustration of the obelisk at Karnak.
Certificate Awarding Joseph Bonomi Honorary Membership of Bologna's Institute of Sciences and Fine Arts, 10 November 1783
The award is attested by two members of the Institute, Antonio Beccadelli, Director of Drawing, and Vincenzo Mazza, Director of Architecture.
Letter by Joseph Bonomi, from Durham, to Robert Mylne, 17 Sept 1800
He has been researching a copy of Vitruvius [De Architectura] edited by Joannes Sulpicius; he believes it was published between 1477 and 1492and gives his reasons for this; hopes Robert Mylne may be able to help further his research.
Two Letters by Joseph Bonomi, Sculptor & Egyptologist, to J. J. Scoles, 19 & 24 April 1847
Presents to the RIBA sketches of the marbles from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at Bodrum, Turkey.
Letters by Joseph Bonomi to Joseph John Scoles, 1822-1838
ScJJ/1/2/3 Letter by Bonomi, from Philae, to Scoles, in Beirut, 30 Aug 1825 (3p. on 1 leaf): intends to do down the Nile to Thebes and then to Cairo, Mt. Sinai and Jerusalem; thanks Scoles for his news from Rome and his notes on Greece and says "I wish I had your architectural mind"
