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August 21, 2023 8:06pm

Plus de secret pour les membres de #DH ... Esquisse initiale 1800s, réalisation 1830s.
Architecte: Joseph Bonomi.
Production de #JosephBonomi qui est une reprise des travaux de Jean-Francois Therèse Chalgrin pour l'élévation d'un temple #PlaceDeLaVictoire pour #Desaix et #Kleber.

Merci #Ulrich

Un site donne sa version de son génie... "Aurait-il découvert une machine à remonter le temps?"
Lol...

Portrait of the Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi the Younger, by Matilda Sharpe (1868) – did he discover the secrets of time travel?
In #Egypt, he sketched antiquities and temple interiors, even inventing a kind of drawing-frame-cum-viewfinder to record such ancient remains more accurately. Bonomi also produced plaster casts of the reliefs of the famous temples of Kalabsha. After two years with Hay, #Bonomi – resentful at his low salary – fell out with him. He stayed in Egypt, however, living in Cairo, where he illustrated the pioneering #Egyptologist James Burton’s Excerpta hieroglyphica. His finances restored by such work, Bonomi re-joined Hay in 1832 and – after a couple more years in Egypt – undertook tours of Syria and Palestine. In 1839, he contributed illustrations to Manners and Customs of the Ancient #Egyptians by Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson, a man described as ‘the father of British #Egyptology.

https://www.davidcastleton.net/brompton-cemetery-time-machine-courtoy-tomb-egypt-victorian-london-bonomi/

#nouvellechronologie #egypte #antique (=en toc!)

Brompton Cemetery's Time Machine - a Victorian Contraption Hidden in a London Tomb?

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