Austen Henry Layard Collection

Hall in an Assyrian palace. Reconstruction, 1849. Creator: Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894)
Hall in an Assyrian palace. Reconstruction (From "The Nineveh Court in the Crystal Palace" by Austen Henry Layard), 1849. Private Collection

Shipping the Great Bull from Nimroud, at Morghill, on the Euphrates, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Shipping the Great Bull from Nimroud, at Morghill, on the Euphrates, [Iraq], 1850. The drawing from which the Engraving...is taken has been brought over by one of the Messrs

Nisroch, Assyrian god, mid 19th century. Assyrian eagle-winged god Nisroch carrying a pine cone, the symbol of regeneration. Ancient Assyria, a kingdom of Mesoptamia, was located in modern Iraq

Excavating a low-relief carving of the Fish god Dagon, Nineveh, 1853. Artist: N Chevalier
Excavating a low-relief carving of the Fish god Dagon, Nineveh, 1853. Between 1845 and 1851 British archaeologist Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)

Ruins of Asrum Asia Minor: Explored with Layard (Sir Henry Layard), ca. 1845

Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 32, Huntsmen with Gazelle, Hare and Birds (Khorsabad), 1853

Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 6, Fish-god (Nimroud); Figure near an Entrance (Kouyunjik), 1853

Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 3, Human-headed Bull and Winged Figure... 1853. Creator
Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 3, Human-headed Bull and Winged Figure from a Gateway in the Wall Surrounding Kouyunjik (Quyunjik), 1853

Procession of the Bull, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Procession of the Bull, 1890. Archaeological excavations began in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in 1845. Austen Henry Layards expedition transported a Lamassu with human head, body of a bull

The Palace of Kouyunjik, Restored. (After Layard), 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Palace of Kouyunjik, Restored. (After Layard), 1890. Daily life on the mound-ruin of Kouyunjik, palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh. From " Cassells Illustrated Universal History, Vol

The Palaces of Nimrud Restored, 1853. A reconstruction of the palaces built by the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal on the banks of the Tigris in the 7th century BC

A city taken by assault by the Assyrians, c1853, (c1900-1920). A 19th-century drawing of a bas-relief in the British Museum from the Assyrian empire (c7th century BC)

Assault on the City of Lachish, 700-692 BC, (c1900-1920). Artist: Sir Austen Henry Layard
Assault on the City of Lachish, 700-692 BC, (c1900-1920). A print after a 19th-century drawing from Layards Monuments of Nineveh

Assyrians moving a winged bull, c7th century BC, (c1900-1920). Artist: Sir Austen Henry Layard
Assyrians moving a winged bull, c7th century BC, (c1900-1920). A print after a 19th-century drawing from Layards Monuments of Nineveh

Right Hon Austen Henry Layard DCL, British Ambassador to Constantinople, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Right Hon Austen Henry Layard DCL, British Ambassador to Constantinople, 1877. Between 1845 and 1851, Layard (1817-1894) excavated the remains of the ancient Assyrian capitals of Nimrud

Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), British archaeologist, poltician and diplomat, 1851. Excavated Nimrud/Nineveh, Iraq. Wood engraving

Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, politician and diplomat, c1880. Between 1845 and 1851 Layard (1817-1894) excavated the remains of the ancient Assyrian capitals of Nimrud and Nineveh

Reconstruction of the north-eastern facade of Sennacheribs palace (Kouyunjik), Assyrian, 1853. Sennacherib, King of Assyria (701 BC-681 BC), built a magnificent palace at the kingdoms capital

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