From Nineveh to New York
Subtitle: the strange story of the Assyrian reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the hidden masterpiece at Canford School
By: John Malcolm Russell, with contributions by Judith McKenzie and Stephanie Dalley.
Contributors: McKenzie, Judith.; Dalley, Stephanie.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Yale University Press in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian.; Assyria -- Antiquities.; Nineveh (Extinct city)
Description: The story of Sir Austen Henry Layard's rediscovery of ancient Assyria and its fabled capital, Nineveh, is one of the great tales of nineteenth-century archeological imperialism, genius, and romance. In this social history of the reception of ancient Assyrian art in England and subsequently America, John Malcolm Russell focuses on 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-229) and index.