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Yale University Press 1997 Hard cover Russell, John Malcolm., Yale University Press/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997, c1997, 1st Edition, 1st printing, cloth (hard cover), color illus. endpapers, near fine with near fine dj (very light edgewear), 232 pp with appendices, notes, bibliography & index, extensive full color/B&W photographic & other illus., small 4to, bookplate affixed to half title SIGNED by the author (no inscription of any kind), ISBN: 0300064594, 'In this social history of the reception of ancient Assyrian art in England and subsequently America, Russell focuses on the huge collection of artifacts that Layard brought back to England', Art History; collectible signed copy.

Yale University Press, Date: 1997 4to (26.5 cm), 232 pp, Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "The story of Sir Austen Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria and its fabled capital, Nineveh, is one of the great tales of the nineteenth century, uniting archaeological imperialism, genius, and romance. No less remarkable is the story of the collection, dispersal, and then frantic re-acquisition in the twentieth century of the world's greatest Assyrian collection ever to be in private hands. In this fascinating history of the reception of ancient Assyrian art in England and subsequently in America, John Malcolm Russell recounts the story of the huge collection of artifacts that Layard brought back to England. Much went to the British Museum, but much also to the fascinating Lady Charlotte Guest and then, via a Manhattan dealer and numerous competitive curators and millionaires, to the Metropolitan Museum. The last of Layard's Assyrian sculptures, discovered by the author in a private British school, was sold for $12 million at auction in 1994 - a figure that tripled the highest price ever paid for a work of antiquity. This book is based almost entirely on unpublished archives, including the 10,000-page diary of Lady Charlotte Guest, the brilliant and resourceful cousin of Layard's and the richest woman in England. At her country house, Canford Manor, Guest commissioned from Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament, the Nineveh Porch to display ...

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