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Nimroud Sculptures...Triumphal Return of the King to his Camp, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

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Nimroud Sculptures, just received at the British Museum - Triumphal Return of the King to his Camp, 1850. 'The King is seen in his chariot, attended by his chief eunuch; before him, but aloft, flies the symbolical eagle, bearing a human head in its claw. The chariots are preceded by musicians, and by soldiers carrying the heads of the slain, which they appear to display with exultation....the yokes of the chariots are undecorated...yet it should be remarked that these trappings scarcely differ in any respect from the harness which was used on state occasions, in the seventeenth century, in Spain and other countries of Europe; and, in some points, they are evidently the prototypes of our modern horse furniture of parade'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM22A34_145

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,5Mo (2,1Mo) / 42,0cm x 18,2cm / 4960 x 2146 (300dpi)

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animal people male man men animals horses horse head arts bird birds Middle East carving eagle sculpture monarch art guy British museum bird of prey king royal Middle Eastern handicraft handicrafts carved location Victorian British Museum century Britain newspapers press royalty exhibition exhibit B&W raptor engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W Asia Minor nineteenth century The Print Collector Assyria Assyrian Babylonia Babylonian eunuch Illustrated London News severed head sovereign TGN ILN newspaper Unknown eunuchs severed heads 19th-century Hand Carved