Austen Henry Layard
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Sir Austen Henry Layard was a British Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largel
Portrait of Layard c. 1890
A. H. Layard at Kuyunjik. Drawing by Solomon Caesar Malan, 1850.
1849 illustration by Austen Henry Layard of excavations at Nineveh
Caricature from Vanity Fair, (Aug 1869) captioned "He combines the love of truth and art with equal devotion and success"
Assyrian sculpture
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Assyrian sculpture is the sculpture of the ancient Assyrian states, especially the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 612 BC, which was centered around the city of Assur in Mesopotamia which at its height,
Austen Henry Layard
…family in Paris and largely raised in Italy. He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his discoveries are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his…
British Museum Room 10 lion hunting
"Winged genie", Nimrud c. 870 BC, with inscription running across his midriff.
Part of the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, c. 645–635 BC
Detail of genie figure, the palace of Ashurnasirpal II