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Ruins of Asrum Asia Minor: Explored with Layard (Sir Henry Layard)
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Miner Kilbourne Kellogg traveled to Constantinople in 1844, where he met the English archaeologist Austen Henry Layard, best known as the excavator of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. They became close friends and toured the city and surroundings together, searching for suitable sites to research and paint. The artist believed their documentation of religious sites was very important, and once back in America he gave a series of lectures on what he believed to be the true landscape of the Old Testament. (Davis, The Landscape of Belief, 1996)
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Credit lineRuins of Asrum Asia Minor: Explored with Layard (Sir Henry Layard). ca. 1845. Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Martha F. Butler. CC0.
