BONOMI

Joseph ( son of Giuseppe Bonomi of London, architect 1739–1808 ). b. 76 Great Titch field st. London 9 Oct. 1796; ed. at Car shalt on, Surrey; studied drawing at Royal Academy and sculpture under Nollekens; fellow Student with John Gibson in Rome; lived in Egypt and Syria 1824–32 and 1842–44; went to the Holy Land 1833; illustrated the Egyptological works of Wilkinson and Birch and nearly all those of Samuel Sharpe; curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1861 to death; F.R.A.S, 8 Feb. 1861; author of Nineveh and its palaces 1852, new ed. 1869. d. The Camels, Wimbled on park, Surrey 3 March 1878. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx , 216–19 (1879); The Proportions of the human figure by J. Bonomi, 5 ed. 1880, portrait ; I.L.N. lxxii , 245 (1878), portrait .