Austen Henry Layard

The authorities additionally record the headings Sir Austen Henry Layard, Austen Henry Layard Sir and Austen Henry, Sir Layard. His recorded language was English.

He was the child of Henry Peter John Layard and Marianne Austen. He married Mary Enid Evelyn Guest. Other recorded relations include Nina Frances Layard.

Austen Henry Layard worked in archaeology.

He was employed by Foreign Office. Recorded positions include Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, First Commissioner of Works, member of the 20th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom and member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom. He belonged to Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He worked at London.

Austen Henry Layard received Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Royal Gold Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order and Founder’s Medal.

13 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, The Cleveland Museum of Art and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1849 to 1854.

Monuments of Nineveh. Discoveries among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon. Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 6, Fish-god (Nimroud); Figure near an Entrance (Kouyunjik), dated 1853, lithograph in black and beige, held by The Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory 2010.668. Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 3, Human-headed Bull and Winged Figure from a Gateway in the Wall Surrounding Kouyunjik (Quyunjik), dated 1853, lithograph in black and beige, held by The Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory 2010.669. Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 32, Huntsmen with Gazelle, Hare and Birds (Khorsabad), dated 1853, lithograph in black and beige, held by The Cleveland Museum of Art, inventory 2010.564. Layard, Sir Austen Henry, dated Late 19th Century, held by Wellcome Collection. Sir Austen Henry Layard. Photograph by Caldesi Blandford & Co., held by Wellcome Collection. Sir Austen Henry Layard. Photograph by W. & D. Downey., held by Wellcome Collection. Sir Austen Henry Layard. Photograph by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company., held by Wellcome Collection. Nineveh and its remains: with an account of a visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers; and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians / by Austen Henry Layard., dated 1854, held by Wellcome Collection. Nineveh and its remains: with an account of a visit to the Chaldaean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or devil-worshippers; and an enquiry into the manners and arts of the ancient Assyrians / [Sir Austen Henry Layard]., dated 1849, held by Wellcome Collection. The fine arts' courts in the Crystal Palace., dated 1854, held by Wellcome Collection. Inscriptions in the cuneiform character : from Assyrian monuments, discovered by A. H. Layard, D.C.L., dated 1851, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Cleveland Museum of Art: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 13 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

12 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Layard, Sir Austen Henry, Oxford Art Online, 2003. Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817–1894), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017. LAYARD, Austen Henry, Encyclopaedia Iranica Online. SIR AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, The Excavations in Assyria and Babylonia, 2017. Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817–1894), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, 2021. An Art World Insider: Austen Henry Layard and the Nineteenth-Century European Art Trade, Journal for Art Market Studies, 2018. Austen Henry Layard at the remains of Nineveh: The everyday life of an archaeological expedition, Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021. ‘Many Great Treasures’ of ‘Great Beauty’, or ‘Crude and Cramped’? The Appraisal of ‘Nineveh’s Remains’ by Austen Henry Layard, Stratford Canning, and Henry Rawlinson, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2018. «Une des figures les plus originales de Milan»: l’antiquario Giuseppe Baslini (1817-1887), ACME, 2022. On the History, Presence, and Future of Optics Manufacturing, Micromachines, 2021. Heteronomic Historicism, Architectural Histories, 2017. Reseña de: Vega, Jesusa, «Austen Henry Layard y las antigüedades de Nínive: entre el pasado la realidad y el ensueño», La novela arqueológica o la ensoñación de la realidad (s. XVIII-XIX), Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte, 2025.

9 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

Nineveh and Its Remains (2001) — Internet Archive. A popular account of discoveries at Nineveh (1857) — Internet Archive. Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan ... (1850) — Internet Archive. Italian Schools of Painting (1902) — Internet Archive. Domenico Ghirlandaio and His Fresco of the Death of S. Francis (1860) — Internet Archive. Domenico Ghirlandaio and His Fresco of the Death of S. Francis A. H. Layard — Internet Archive. Monuments of Ninevah: Plate 3, Human-headed Bull and Winged Figure from a Gateway in the Wall Surrounding Kouyunjik (Quyunjik) (1853) — Internet Archive. Handbook of painting The Italian Schools (1891) — Internet Archive. Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon — Project Gutenberg.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 34 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 7 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 7 means 7 genuinely separate publishers of record. 11 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is archaeology.

Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Employment is recorded with Foreign Office. Positions recorded include Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and First Commissioner of Works. Membership is recorded of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Distinctions recorded are Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Royal Gold Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order and Founder’s Medal.