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Last Name Bonomi

Given Name Joseph

alt. Names J. B. ; Bonomi the Younger ;

Marriage Jessie Martin in 1844

Children

Year born 1796 in Rome

Year died 1878

Place of death Wimbledon, London

Father's occupation architect draughtsman Joseph Bonomi the Elder (1739-1808)

Relatives architect Ignatius Bonomi (1787-1870) (brother) ; John Martin (1789-1854) (father-in-law)

Education pupil of Charles Bell at Royal Academy, Rome, scultpure from Joseph Nollekens

Country of Activity Egypt

Worked for Robert Hay (1799-1863) ; James Burton: Excerpta hieroglyphica ; John Gardiner Wilkinson: Manners Customs Ancient Egyptians (1839) ; Samuel Birch ; J. Bonomi: Nineveh (1853) ; S. Birch: Gallery of Antiquities (1842) ; egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) ;

Patronage British Museum London ; Sir John Sloane Museum ;

Collaborators draughtsman Edward William Lane ; A. Dupuy ; Arundale ;

Techniques natural sculpture, drawing, plaster casting ; archaeological lithography

Sample(s) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian-Chariot.png ; www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/OnlineWorkshops/DrawingOutMeaning/08JosephBonomi

Archival sources correspondence and papers in Cambridge: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/0300bon.html

Published sources Bryan 1886 ; AKL 12 1996: 603 ; Elke Freier & Stefan Grunert: Eine Reise durch Ägypten (Berlin 1984) ;

other Further Places of Activity: born in Rome (Italy), but settled in London soon thereafter; since 1829 also active as archaeologist in Egypt, Palestine & Syria; as, museum curator; traveling draughtsman to Malta & Egypt; Middle East; inventor of view-finder drawing frame & body proportions gauge.

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