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 largely raised in Italy.
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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"
Austen Henry Layard (1883)
Lanyard 's reconstruction of a hall from an Assyrian palace, 1849Awards 4
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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 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 best-selling accounts of his excavations.
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