The Monuments of Nineveh. From drawings made on the spot. [Together with:] A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh; Including Bas-Reliefs from the Palace of Sennacherib and Bronzes from the Ruins of Nimroud. From Drawings Made on the Spot, during a Second Expedition to Assyria
Layard, Austen Henry
London. John Murray. 1849–1853
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The Beaufoy-Atabey copies of Layard's publications detailing his first and second excavations in Mesopotamia.
Layard's interest in Nineveh began when he met the French consul Emil Botta in Mosul. Botta had been excavating the mounds opposite the city, which marked the site of the ruins of Nineveh, and Layard visited the site.
Layard met the British ambassador to Turkey, Stratford Canning, who employed him as an unofficial traveller. Canning was interested in archaeology, and Layard's description of the mounds at Nineveh prompted him to finance his own expedition, superintended by Layard. The expeditions took place in 1846 and 1847, and were eventually part sponsored by the trustees of the British Museum. Hence, many of the sculptures were transported to England for the British Museum. (DNB).
[Atabely 686 & 688].
Layard's interest in Nineveh began when he met the French consul Emil Botta in Mosul. Botta had been excavating the mounds opposite the city, which marked the site of the ruins of Nineveh, and Layard visited the site.
Layard met the British ambassador to Turkey, Stratford Canning, who employed him as an unofficial traveller. Canning was interested in archaeology, and Layard's description of the mounds at Nineveh prompted him to finance his own expedition, superintended by Layard. The expeditions took place in 1846 and 1847, and were eventually part sponsored by the trustees of the British Museum. Hence, many of the sculptures were transported to England for the British Museum. (DNB).
[Atabely 686 & 688].
pp. vi, 22; viii, 7. 2 vols. Large folio (586 x 445 mm) + Oblong folio (431 x 560 mm).. Vol. I with 102 plates numbered 1-100 (with coloured frontispiece as plate no.1, and although the title page calls for 100 plates, plates 7 & 7a, and 95 & 95a are counted separately); vol. II has 71 plates, many fold-out. Many of the plates are coloured. Full contemporary red morocco by Mackenzie (Monuments of Nineveh), elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards, turn-ins with gilt decorative patterning and contemporary brown morocco by J. Wright, green morocco title labels to spine,
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