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The portfolios includes views of antiquities in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, including Ctesiphon, Erzurum, Damascus, Van, Amadiyah, Nimrod, Bagdad, Mosul, and Karbala. They were produced after the drawings by Robert Clive (also known as Robert Windsor-Clive), great-grandson of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive ('Clive of India'). In 1850 he travelled to visit Sir Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud and made drawings which were published as a volume of lithographs in 1852, "Sketches between Persian Gulf and Black Sea", also published under the title "Sketches of Nineveh and the Holy Land"., 1. Sculptures at Nimroud - Lions -- 2. Moosul-- 3. Hit on the Euphrates -- 4. Distant view of Mount Ararat; Arab Encampment, near the Birs Nimrod -- 5. Sheikh Adi, country of the Yezidees -- 6. Baghdad -- 7. Roman Ruin in the Desert on way to Palmyra -- 8. Sculptures in the Mount at Nimroud -- 9. Night with the Nestorian Patriarch in the Village of Be-a-latha -- 10. Ruined Fortress of Hoschab, Kurdistan -- 11. Excavations on the mound at Nimroud;-- 12. Hussein Sheikh of the Alouins; Vignette of Camels' Heads -- 13. Damascus -- .14. Lake Van & Town of Ardische -- 15. Tauk Kesra. Ctesiphon -- 16. Fortress & Town of Van; 17. Leezan, , country of the Tiyari -- 18. Amadia -- 19. Julamerk, country of the Hekkari -- .20. Interior of the chief's house at the Kurdish village of Espindar -- 21. Palmyra ; 22. Erzroum -- 23. Ssipan Dagh and Murad Tschal -- 24. Kerbela., by Robert Clive. Esq.e., Title and date from item. The portfolios houses 26 views and subjects on 24 lithographed plates, one folding panorama (of Palmyra), loose in modern cloth portfolio with remains of the original cover (including lithographed title and line drawing of a relief, captioned “This slab from the Mound of Nimroud was obtained from H.B.M. Vice Counsel at Moosul in 1850 and is now in the possession of the Hon. R. Clive at Hewell”) mounted on upper cover., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.GM.2017.0002, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24222185, BIB-ID: 2580880, Cfr. Tim Clayden, "Two unpublished drawings of excavations at Nimrud' revisited", 'In Context: The Reade Festschrift', Archaeopress, 2020. |
