The man who found Nineveh : the story of Austen Henry Layard : production material, 1964.

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The man who found Nineveh : the story of Austen Henry Layard : production material, 1964.

The life of the English archaeologist who found and excavated Ninevah, Babylon and other sites of the ancient Assyrian empire. The collection includes 2 illustrations for jacket (tempera and colored pencil), 26 illustrations (tempera, watercolor, pencil, one with text), 8 positive and negative images, 1 reproduction with overlay of text paste-ups, 15 studies (pencil, ink, tempera), jacket proof, 2 color swatches, 1 page each correspondence, research material, 5 pages notes and layout notes.

Illustrations : 63 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7812041

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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