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drawing
Object Type
drawing
Museum number
2007,6024.352
Description
Draft entry. Pencil drawing on whitish paper.
Producer name
Drawn by:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Production date
19thC
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
55.80 centimetres
Width:
38 centimetres
Curator's comments
From a bound set of original drawings made at the time of the nineteenth-century discoveries in Assyria. Many of these drawings were used by Layard in his publications of the 1840s and 1850s.
Bibliographic references
Layard A H 1849a / The monuments of Nineveh, from drawings made on the spot
(71)
Layard A H 1849b / Nineveh and its Remains
(II, 129, 385, 389)
Layard A H 1853a / Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert
(71)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Associated with:
Sennacherib
Associated places
Associated with:
South West Palace
, Throneroom I (B), 14
Acquisition date
1860
(before)
Acquisition notes
The albums are bound and stamped Department of Antiquities on the spine: as this department was divided into the respective Departments of Coins and Medals, Oriental Antiquities and Greek and Roman Antiquities in 1860/61 they were probably compiled shortly before that date.
Department
Middle East
Registration number
2007,6024.352
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
Or.Dr.IV.7
(Original Drawings vol. IV, drawing 7)