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A Victorian artist in Assyria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

John Curtis*
Affiliation:
Department of the Middle East, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, jcurtis@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Abstract

Frederick Charles Cooper accompanied Austen Henry Layard on his second expedition to Assyria (1849–1850) and recorded the excavations at Nimrud and Nineveh, and expeditions to other sites. The British Museum recently purchased twenty-eight of Cooper's drawings that were previously unknown. Six of them are published here because of their particular archaeological interest, and they can be linked to entries by Cooper in his diary, now also in the British Museum.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2010

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