The Assyrian King Goes Hunting
This is the design drawing for an illustration published in Joan Comay’s The World's Greatest Story: The Epic of the Jewish People in Biblical Times (1978, Holt, Rinehart and Winston), a popular history enhanced by Bawden’s lively artwork. The imagery incorporates examples of ancient art and architecture, in this case, winged lions of a type that stood at important gateways in Assyrian palaces (see 32.143.2), and reliefs that showed the king participating in highly ritualized royal lion hunts. The image introduces "The Near East Setting," a section that discusses the Assyrian Empire as a major regional power as well as its role in biblical history.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Assyrian King Goes Hunting
- Artist: Edward Bawden (British, Braintree, Essex 1903–1989 Saffron Walden, Essex)
- Date: ca. 1978
- Culture: British
- Medium: Pen and black ink, signed and inscribed in graphite
- Dimensions: Sheet: 6 1/8 × 7 3/8 in. (15.6 × 18.7 cm)
- Credit Line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Bequest of Henrie Jo Barth, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023
- Object Number: 2023.670
- Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Edward Bawden
- Curatorial Department: Ancient West Asian Art
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