page_title: M. Louise Baker
section_title: The Royal Tombs of Ur
hierarchical_section_title: M. Louise Baker / Major illustrations and travel / The Royal Tombs of Ur
caption_attribution_description: "The Ram Caught in a Thicket" "One of the two goat statuettes from the Great Death-pit" English: Identifier: urexcavations191319join (find matches) Title: Ur excavations Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930, ed Woolley, Leonard, Sir, 1880-1960 Legrain, Leon, 1878- ed Subjects: Publisher: (n.p.) Pub. for the Trustees of the Two Museums by the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 1 a. PG/1847. DETAIL OF THE COFFIN (s), SHOWING THE STRING BINDINGV. p. 137 b. PG/1851. BITUMEN BOAT, SHOWING THE SKELETON OF WITHIES ON WHICH THE BITUMEN WAS PLASTERED V. p. 145 PLATE 87 Text Appearing After Image: U. 12357 A. THE RAM CAUGHT IN A THICKET One of the two goat statuettes from the Great Death-pit. Scale c. \ (ht. 0-50 m.) v. pp. I2i, 264 M. Louise Baker pinx, PLATE Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: M. Louise Baker was an American archaeological illustrator, resident artist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and an art teacher at the George School.
context_section_description: In 1932, Baker traveled to the British Museum in London, England, and then on to Baghdad, Iraq, to paint materials held there from the Joint Expedition of the Penn Museum and British Museum to Mesopotamia.  Leonard Woolley served as the excavation director for the Expedition, which uncovered the  Royal Tombs of Ur.  
  During her return from Iraq, Baker visited museums and private collections in Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to add to her illustrations of Maya ceramics.
caption: Ram in a Thicket, Ur excavations (1900), drawn by M. Louise Baker
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