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Joseph Bonomi


Joseph Bonomi
Bonomi, Joseph.jpg
Died 1878
Residence Soane Museum, London
Occupation museum work
artist
egyptologist
Society Membership
membership ordinary fellow
left 1878 deceased
elected_AI 1872.10.22



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proposed 1872.06.10

Report of Council for 1878 - Mr. BONOMI, the accomplished curator of the Soane Museum and distinguished Egyptologist, was known to the Institute as the inventor of an ingenious instrument for ascertaining the relations between height and length of arm, which he exhibited and described on the 20th May, 1872.*

1878.03.12. The death was announced of J. Bonomi Esq. on 5 Mar. 1878.

Notes From Elsewhere

Joseph Bonomi the Younger (9 October 1796 – 3 March 1878) was an English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator.

Publications

External Publications

He published Nineveh and its Palaces and works on Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia, illustrated with his own drawings

The Proportion of the Human Figure published in 1856.

House Publications

Related Material Details

RAI Material

Some of his paintings are listed in MS145 by Barnard Davis

Other Material