print; book of prints

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Object Type: print; book of prints
Museum number: 1849,0519.1-102
Title: Object: The Monuments of Nineveh
Description: Austen Henry Layard, "The Monuments of Nineveh. From Drawings Made on the Spot" (London, John Murray) 1849; containing 100 plates representing ancient Assyrian sculptures and bas-reliefs, bound with chromolithographic titlepage, letterpress titlepage, dedication, introduction, list of illustrations, and description of the plates. Plate 2, representing an imaginary restoration of an Assyrian palace, and Plates 84-87, showing painted bricks, ornaments, and glazed pottery from Nimrud, are chromolithographs. Plates 89-90, depicting ivory fragments, are hand-coloured wood-engravings. Plate 100 contains plans of buildings excavated at Nimrud and Kouyunjik. Etchings Lithographs Wood-engravings, some hand-coloured
Producer name: After: Sir Austen Henry Layard; After: George Scharf (drawings of the Obelisk from the Mound at Nimrud); After: Edward Prentis; Print made by: John Thompson (wood-engravings); Print made by: Samuel Williams (wood-engravings); Print made by: William Holl (the Younger); Printed by: Charles Joseph Hullmandel; Printed by: E Pistrucci; Print made by: Ludwig Gruner; Published by: John Murray
School/style
Production date: 1849
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; lithograph; chromolithograph; wood-engraving; hand-coloured; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 586 millimetres (sheet size of each page); Width: 420 millimetres
Location: Not on display
Subjects: sculpture; architecture; vessel; archaeological site/excavation
Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Nimrud; Associated with: Mesopotamia; Associated with: British Museum
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1849
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1849,0519.1-102

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