drawing
- Museum number
- 2007,6024.4
- Description
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Draft entry. Pencil drawing on yellowish paper of the Black Obelisk.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 54.50 centimetres
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Width: 34 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Drawing of The Black Obelisk, face C, 1848,1104.1 BM.118885.
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.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2007,6024.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Or.Dr.I.3 (Original Drawings vol. I, drawing 3)