Solomon Caesar Malan D.D., Vicar of Broadwindsor, Prebendary of Sarum, was a Geneva-born Anglican divine, a polyglot and orientalist. He published around 50 works related to biblical studies, and translations.
Table Mountain (Cape Town). Drawing by Solomon Malan (1839), now at Sasol Art Museum Stellenbosch
Lion. Nimroud
At Kuyunjik
Excavtions at Kuyunjik
Sir Austen Henry Layard was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English 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 finds are now in the British Museum. He made a large amount of money from his best-selling accounts of his excavations.
Austen Henry Layard
A. H. Layard at Kuyunjik. Drawing by Solomon Caesar Malan, 1850.
Caricature from Vanity Fair, (Aug 1869) captioned "He combines the love of truth and art with equal devotion and success"
Austen Henry Layard (1883)