A Library The Boston Letter from Athenceum •

No. II3 MARCH 1997

Richard Wendorf Takes the Reins as the Athenteums Eleventh Director

T THE ANNUAL MEETING of 3 February, in a congenial and civilized transfer of power, Director Emeritus Rodney Armstrong welcomed new Director and Librarian Richard Wendorf, who joins ten illustrious predecessors in a line that began with William Smith Shaw in r8o7, and has descended through Charles Ammi Cutter and Walter Whitehill to the present day. Mr. Wendorf takes over on the brink of a period of unprecedented change at the Athen£Eum, possibly the most dramatic in the library's nearly 200-year history: The library's catalogues are about to become completely automated and on-line; plans for developing our property in the I4 Beacon Street building next door, and for renovating space in roY2 Beacon Street, will be going forward; The Twenty-First Century Fund Capital Campaign Drive will be emerging from its "quiet" period; and not too far down the road will come the year 2007, the Athen£Eum's 2ooth anniversary, with its anticipated celebrations. Mr. Wendorf is eager to meet these challenges. He comes to the Athen£Eum from the Houghton Library at Harvard, where he had been Director since r989, and where he supervised projects such as the retrospective conversion of the card catalogue, ex­ tensive building renovations, the creation and endowment of a visiting fellows pro­ gram, and the stabilization of budget problems all of which would seem to pave the way nicely for him to move across the river and begin the entire process once again at roY2 Beacon Street. Educated at WilliafUS College, Oxford, and Princeton, Mr. Wendorf came to Harvard from Northwestern University, where he served as profes­ sor of English and art history. While at Northwestern, he also served as associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. His many publications include The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait Painting in Stuart and Georgian England (r990), and his most recent work, Sir joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Harvard University Press, I996). He is presently working on a book devoted to encounters between paint­ ing and literature, with chapters on Piranesi, Stubbs, and Rossetti. Mr. Wendorf will give his first Athen£Eum lectures on the topic of Sir Joshua on r8 and 20 March, at 6:oo p.m. (see "In the Gallery," below). 2

RicHARD WENDORF, the Athen~um's eleventh Director and Librarian. Photo by Diane Asseo Grilliches.

The new Director is welcoming guests in the customary fourth floor Director's office, which has acquired a rich and vibrant new coat of paint (a touch of Wedg­ wood, a touch of Prussian blue), and he has become delightfully visible throughout the building, so far doing everything from serving drinks on the trustee bus trip to Connecticut, to giving his two children an insider's view of Silhouette Day. He is deeply concerned about the future of the Athen~um, and intends to "reach out vig­ orously and broadly to the Boston community ... to appeal to a much broader range of constituencies than this library has before." He encourages all members to intro­ duce themselves if they encounter him in the building and readers are destined to find him almost anywhere!

We're Almost On-Line! Head of Cataloguing and Automation Bob Kruse reports that after considering systems from five vendors, the Athen~um has selected a test database of the Voyager automated library system, produced by Endeavor Information Systems, which we be­ lieve is the most powerful, flexible, and easy to use of all the systems considered. The conversion of the card catalogues to machine-readable form is now almost complete, and we expect to begin using the system for the staff functions of cataloguing and ac­ quisitions by the end of March. We anticipate having the on-line public access cata­ logue available for reader use by the end of April. When that time comes, readers will be encouraged to attend training sessions, which will be offered to assist readers in learning how to use the new catalogue. Read­ ers will receive sign-up notices for group sessions, and individual instruction will also be offered for those who are interested. Automated book circulation will follow later in the year, after the task of bar coding the books in the circulating collection has been completed. Access to our collections from remote computers will also be available some months after the on-line public access catalogue is in use.

A Security Reminder In anticipation of the expected increase in the number of visitors to the Athenceum now that the new sign has been installed on our doorstep and our book catalogue is about to go on-line, readers should be aware that the staff of the Athenceum will be enforcing security regulations that have, in fact, been on the books for some years now. We hope that readers will be sympathetic to our renewed efforts to keep a careful eye on the building and collections that mean so much to us all. Effective immediately, readers will be asked to produce a membership card upon entering the building, both as a security check and for the benefit of some new mem­ bers of the security staff who may not be familiar with regular users. For those of you who over the year have misplaced that bit of identification, let us know and a new one will promptly be sped to your mailbox. To protect our library materials and art collections, we also ask that no food or drink be carried into any part of the building except the second and fifth floor terraces. Most readers are by now accustomed to leaving packages, briefcases, oversized purses, and other similar items with the secu­ rity guard; this policy will continue. The security guard will also be required to ex­ amine all material being taken out of the building by readers and staff members. We appreciate past cooperation by members in our attempts to care for our col­ lections, and hope for your understanding in these current efforts.

The Twenty-First Century Fund Update The National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant to the Athenceum of $425,000, awarded in December, will assist immeasurably in keeping the library on-line, ensuring that members will be able to search other library collections in in­ ternational databases and that our own holdings will be fully accessible to anyone in the world. The grant will help to endow the position of Head of Cataloguing and Automation that's Bob Kruse (see above)! Remaining financial support for the po­ sition must be raised to match the NEH Challenge grant three to one, requiring (by quick figuring) $I,275,000 over the next several years. Knowing how important the automated capacity is to the future strength of the library, friends have to date 4 pledged almost half of the amount required, with some $675,000 still needed. Those interested in helping may direct an Annual Appeal gift to the match, or make out­ right gifts as well. Please call Joan Nordell in the Fund office (227-0270, ext. 256) for further information. The john Bromfield Society Trustees G. d'Andelot Belin and Bayard Henry, Bromfield Society co-chairs, want members to know that they will receive a spring mailing about The Bromfield Soci­ ety, designed to enlighten those who would like to know the best ways to include the Athenceum in their estate plans. Director Richard Wendorf will forward a new book­ let on the Society, which will include information about specific programs for planned giving (which benefits both the library and thoughtful donors). Members who wish to make gifts to the Athenceum will find that they are able to give more than they thought because of the excellent tax advantages connected with planned gifts. Please call Joan Nordell in the Fund office of you have any questions in the meantime.•

Athent£um and Antiquarian Society Collaborate on Lithography Exhibition Lithography, the youngest of the classic printmaking techniques, was invented more or less by accident at the end of the eighteenth century, when the Bavarian Alois Senefelder made a hasty copy of a laundry list on a limestone slab, but within decades it became the medium favored for much of the artistic and most of the commercial work produced in the nineteenth century. To honor the bicentennial anniversary of this auspicious invention, Sally Pierce, the Athenceum's curator of prints, and her col­ leagues Catharina Slautterback of the Athenceum and Georgia Barnhill of the Amer­ ican Antiquarian Society, have prepared an extraordinary exhibition of lithographs from the first decade of printmaking, featuring works from both the Athenceum's col­ lection and also from the important holdings at the Antiquarian Society. The exhibi­ tion will open on Thursday, 17 April, and will run through 20 June, with an opening reception on 17 April from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. To complement the exhibition, the Athenceum is publishing an illustrated cata­ logue, Early American Lithography: Images to I8JO, with an essay by Sally Pierce chart­ ing the growth of lithography in America, and a fully annotated checklist by Catha­ rina Slautterback and Georgia Barnhill that provides valuable information about early American lithographers and their role in the creation of a new American culture. The book will be available for purchase at the Athenceum gift shop. Second Floor Events April, May, and] une will be busy on the second floor as spring begins to liven up the air. On Thursday, 3 April, a new series, "Noon Music," will premiere with a recital (at noon, of course) by Olav Chris Henricksen (lure), and Carol Lewis (viol). The "Noon Music" series will continue on 10 April with a recital by Peter Sykes (harpsi- 5 chord), and conclude on 17 April with a recital by Rick Schilling (guitar). Continu­ ing in the musical vein, the Athen~um's spring concert this year will feature pianist Rita Bouboulidi, who will perform on Tuesday, 6 May, at 6:oo p.m. The spring lecture circuit will be inaugurated by our new Director, Richard Wen­ dorf, who will speak on r8 and 20 March at 6:oo p.m. about Sir Joshua Reynolds, the subject of Mr. Wendorf's latest book. On 25 March, at 6:oo p.m., James Rees, Resi­ dent Director, Historic Mount Vernon, will speak about George Washington as an entrepreneur. On Thursday and Friday, 24 and 25 April, we will welcome the Royal Oak Foundation again, this year in the person of Christopher Ridgway, who will speak on ((The Book Collecting Earls of Castle Howard" (on the 24th), and ((Picture Collecting at Castle Howard" (on the 25th), both lectures at 6:oop.m. Having been thwarted by a winter storm last December, Marie-France Pochna will try again, on I May, to deliver her fascinating take on Christian Dior (6:oo p.m.). On 27 May at 6:oo p.m., Al Casey will speak about his book Casey's Law, and on 3 June sculptor Dimitri Hadzi will speak about his new book. The very popular "Date at the Movies" night will return on 12 June at 6:oo p.m., with a film to be announced. Special interest groups will continue to meet on their regular Monday evening schedules: first Monday-Poetry Discussion Group and Young Readers Reading Group; second Monday-the Culinary Discussion Group; third Monday-Literary Conversations and the Poetry Discussion Group; and fourth Monday-the Mystery Novel Reading Group. For information, call Monica Higgins at 227-0270, or if a par­ ticular group appeals to you, simply show up on the appropriate Monday evening at 6:oo p.m. and join the fun. Results ofReader Survey We promised to let you know the results of the reader survey that many of you so kindly took the time to complete. The raw statistics need some time for analysis, but the written comments from some of you need an immediate hearing. Here are some of them, prepared by reference librarian Jim Woodman. Total Questionnaires completed: 231

USER HABITS • Four comments stating that we need extended weekend and evening hours. • One comment that the staff was too aggressive at closing time.

USING THE CATALOGUES • Ten comments lamenting the loss of the card catalogues and suggesting that they be retained after computerization. • Four readers stated that they look forward to the on-line catalogue. • Two suggestions that we standardize Cutter and LC systems in the on-line cata­ logue. 6

• Two comments that the Call Mark Location Guide should be more specific. • One reader regrets the loss of the VEF call mark. • One reader feels the Cutter system is difficult to use. • One reader feels browsing is difficult with two classification systems. • Four comments stating that books are difficult to locate on shelves.

CIRCULATION • Two readers commented that the circulation staff was very helpful. • One reader feels that new books should circulate for thirty days, instead of fourteen. • One reader suggests that readers be notified when a book they have suggested for purchase has arrived. • Another reader feels that overdue fees are too high.

COLLECTIONS • Four comments stating that the AthenCEum should maintain its present strengths and not try to be a general library. • Two readers stated that we should focus on "serious books," and not buy business, computer, self-help books etc. • Two comments suggesting we buy more art books. • One reader feels we need more business periodicals. • One reader commented that many current periodicals are often missing from the first floor Reading Room. • Another reader suggested that we prune our "gossip" magazines. • One comment that we need a greater diversity of periodicals. • One comment that we buy more current auction catalogues. • One reader enjoys the art displayed around the AthenCEum. • One reader would like easier access to the newspaper and print collections. • One reader praises our great diversity of periodicals. • Another reader appreciates our more "obscure" material. • One reader is concerned for the security of collections. • One reader feels that some pruning of collections is necessary. • One patron has found some important books in storage "for no good reason."

REFERENCE SERVICES • There were four comments stating that the reference staff is very helpful. • One reader believes most staff are helpful while others are often busy talking to other staff members. • One reader is more comfortable with the circulation staff than the reference staff. • One reader feels Interlibrary Loan works very well. 7

• Three readers feel that the reference department should provide more electronic re­ sources for readers. • One patron feels we need a quieter place to consult rare books. • One reader suggests we create a guide to local special collections.

FACILITIES • Three comments stating that we should ban smoking in the building altogether. • Four readers feel that lighting in the building could be better. • Five readers feel that reading rooms are often noisy due to staff and tours. • Two comments that we need more modern, comfortable furniture. • Two calls for air-conditioning. • Two requests for a meeting room for readers. • One call for more ladders to reach books. • One reader would like to see private parking. • One reader loves the flowers while another feels they don't look as good as they used to. • One reader would like to see an outside book-return box. • One suggestion that we install more electrical outlets for laptops. • One reader feels it is often too hot in the library. • One call for better signage in the stacks and maps throughout the building.

GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTS • Thirteen readers commented that the traditional atmosphere of the Athen~um should not be sacrificed for improvement or modernization. • Two readers thanked Mr. Armstrong for his work and said they would miss him. • Five respondents suggested that we generally need more staff. • Four readers thanked us for asking, and hope that the results of this survey will be made available to readers. • One readers feels that Tea charges should be lower. • Twenty-one readers commented how much they generally love and appreciate the Athen~um. • One reader is excited to have a new director who is familiar with << library prob­ lems." • One reader would like to see more young people in the Athen~um. • One patron feels Tea is disruptive and should be discontinued.

Our thanks again to Jim Woodman for his hard work in preparing the question­ naire and analyzing the data. 8 Assyria in Beacon Street "Let some future prince repair the ruins of Nineveh, my name and inscriptions let him restore to their place," reads one of the "standard" inscriptions of Ashur-nasir­ pal II (883-859 BC), King of Assyria or, as he preferred to be called, "Great King, Mighty King, King of the Universe, King of Assyria" at his palace at Kalhu, a re­ quest he thought to make more efficacious with the curse" .. ·. w~osoever destroys my name may [the gods] Assur and Ninutra look down upon htm In wrath, overthrow his kingdom, take his throne from him, set him before his enemies, and blot his name and his seed from the land." Little could he have guessed that in the mid-nineteenth century, some 2, 700 years later, his name and inscriptions would be set up at the Boston Athenceum, restored by a highly unlikely champion, the bookseller and Green Mountain Boy Mr. Henry Stevens of Vermont. Michael Wentworth, Curator of Col­ lections, recalls a forgotten chapter in Athenceum history.

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Readers of the catalogue for the Washington Library Collection currently on ex­ hibition in the gallery will recognize the name Henry Stevens as that of the buyer of what is today the largest remaining part of George Washington's library at Mount Vernon. He acquired the books from one of the late president's heirs, later selling them to a group of Boston and Cambridge subscribers who deposited the collection in the Athenceum in 1848. The whole transaction grew cloudy and confused, and ul­ timately a little unpleasant, and in the end Stevens was forced to accept about half of what he had originally asked for the books. From the beginning, Boston thrift had been pitted against Stevens's hopes for the sale, and he was forced to retire from the transaction with a frayed temper and an indifferent profit. But for Stevens, as a con­ temporary noted, "combativeness was devoid of every particle of rancour," and he came to look on the business with philosophic amusement as a patriotic exercise in the promotion of art and literature in his native land. Although the Athenceum had a real interest in the outcome of the Washington Library subscription (which it clearly attempted to influence with a generous contribution), it could hardly be held re­ sponsible for the financial confusion of the committee, which occurred before the books were given to the library. The library would, however, play a leading role in Boston's next encounter with Stevens, and he would test his skill against the Athenceum in a battle of wits that left little trace in the annals of the library, but is worth recounting as a postscript to his Washington dealings, for in the strange and now forgotten matter of "the Nineveh marbles," he had the last laugh. Assyrian art was totally unknown before a series of archaeological campaigns re­ vealed it to the West in the 1840s. Until a flurry of excavations began in the middle of that decade, there was no tangible proof that the Assyrian empire had ever existed at all. The Bible is full of angry references to its bloodthirsty, lustful, and generally unsavory habits, its winged bulls with human heads haunted the nightmares of Old I I.

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Lowering the Great Winged Bull at Nimrud for shipment to England. Lithograph, frontispiece to Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh and its Remains (London, 1849). IO

Testament prophets, and Greek and Roman hi~torian~ attested. t? its former .glory, but the geographic position and the actual rema1ns of 1ts great c1t1es were lost 1n the uncharted waste of the desert. By the mid-nineteenth century, the Mesopotamian plain was a backwater of the Turkish empire and European travelers were few and far between. It never seems to have occurred to anyone to investigate the huge mounds, some more than 200 feet high and covering scores of acres, that were scattered across the landscape, at least until they aroused the curiosity of the Victorian adventurer and diplomat Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), the founder of Assyrian archaeology, when an entire civilization was disgorged before the spellbound gaze of a new and al­ together different empire. Assyrian art proved to be of astonishing richness and complexity. Most early view­ ers found it repugnant, and even Layard at first thought it "undoubtedly inferior to the most secondary work of Greece and Rome," but the importance of this ((new fea­ ture in the history of art" was self-evident from the beginning, and its colossal artis­ tic achievement was increasingly perceived as well. Nonetheless, in an age of conflict between theology and the natural sciences, for most its interest lay squarely in the ((proof" of Biblical chronology and Scriptural truth it was thought to document, and aesthetic understanding was to lag a generation behind. Today, when the towering quality of Assyrian art is unquestioned, scholars struggle inconclusively to establish a relationship, if there is one, between Biblical texts and what archaeology has revealed. Layard began excavating at Nimrud and Nineveh in 1845, and his dazzling finds began to reach London in 1847, where they continued to pile up at the British Mu­ seum until the Crimean War brought the first great age of Assyrian exploration to a close. Duplicate or redundant material not required for the Museum was reburied, and in 1852 some of it was tacitly released when the agent for the Museum was instructed to facilitate other efforts to remove it. Two English speculators obtained permission to remove thirteen large slabs, then thought to represent Sennacherib and to have originated at Nineveh, but now known to depict Ashur-nasir-pal II and to have come from his great Northwest Palace at Kalhu, the modern Nimrud. Layard had begun his excavations at Nimrud but, unable to read the cuneiform inscriptions he discovered, he thought he had found Nineveh, and the confusion was to persist for many years, later making the find site of many objects uncertain. The cumber­ some and fragile slabs were about a foot thick, 7Y2 feet high and 6 feet wide, with the whole running some 72 feet in length and weighing 17 tons. They were floated 8oo miles down the Tigris to the Persian Gulf, thence to Mauritius, and on to London, where they were stored in the East India Docks and put up for sale. They lay for some months unsold, some 30 tons of stone and packing that cost a fortune in storage charges but added nothing to the bank account of their proud owners, who appar­ ently now approached Stevens, the London agent for the Smithsonian Institution, with a view to disposing of them in Washington. When there was no response from ((Uncle Samuel," as Stevens generally referred to the government, where the matter was permitted ((to slumber in the mighty limbo there of such expensive adventures," Stevens consulted friends at the British Museum (where he was the Agent for Amer- II ica), and assured of the importance of the stones, gambled on their value at his O\vn risk and acquired the sculpture for himself by paying shipping and storage charges amounting to £300. The reliefs now continued on their travels, going across the Atlantic and back into storage, this time on Lewis Wharf in Boston, where the reality of 30 tons of marble and packing material once more began to outweigh pride of ownership. "I had golden dreams about these Nineveh sculptures," Stevens remembered, "3,000 years old, landing at Boston only 245 years after John Winthrop; and about their reception at the hub of the Universe. The first reality I experienced when fully awake was that the expenses were running up very fast, and that I was compelled to disregard the 'an­ cient art' and pay for the sculptured marbles, in their bulky protections, as goods of 30 tons measurement." Dream as he might, Stevens had also contacted Edward Everett, a former president of Harvard College, Secretary of State, and senator, who was deeply involved with the establishment of the new Public Library, about the stones, and Everett showed great interest in acquiring them to adorn the vestibule of the library then being built in Boylston Street. In contact with N. D. Hubbard of Hubbard Brothers, to whom the shipment had been consigned, he arranged for Hub­ bard to send out a circular letter inviting "a few gentlemen of taste and intelligence" to a private view of the slabs in the hope that there might be a donor among them. Although the letter went out in mid-December, it was not until the ninth of January that the viewing took place. They were exhibited in the open lower story of the wharf on what Everett described as "the coldest day we have had yet," which is perhaps the reason only Everett and three others took advantage of the invitation. On the four­ teenth, an article appeared in the Daily Advertiser suggesting that the sculpture "would form a very appropriate ornament for the vestibule of the building now erect­ ing for the Public Library," and wondering rhetorically, "have our citizens the liber­ ality, the culture, and the public spirit to secure them as a permanent addition to the recourses of Boston?" With that the whole matter of the Public Library as a home for the slabs dropped permanently from sight, and what happened in the next few weeks is now irretrievably obscure. Everett, who was clearly the guiding force in the pro­ posed acquisition, had gone south, and by the time he returned in April, the Nineveh marbles were in the Boston Athenceum. At a meeting of the Athenceum trustees on March ro, r856, it was recorded "that Mr. Hooper, on behalf of the Fine Arts Committee, received upon deposit in the In­ stitution, but without responsibility to be incurred by the Athenceum any or all of the Nineveh Tablets now in this city to be added to the Exhibition of the current year." According to Stevens, the sculpture was removed to the Athenceum by some public­ spirited citizens at their own expense, and five were placed in the vestibule at roV2 Beacon Street, where they remained for the next three years. "Here they stood many more weary months, like Barnum's wax figures," as Stevens put it, "until they and I were tired." Although the catalogues of the annual exhibitions for r856, r857, and r858 describe them at some length, chiefly in relation to "the remarkable confirmations which the inscriptions afford of the truth of Scripture history," there is no mention I2 of their owner, a matter in which the Athen~um was generally scrupulous, and it is not known where or at whose expense the remaining eight slabs were stored. Sometime in 1858, Stevens related the saga of his "patriotic adventure in the Nin­ eveh fine arts line" to his friend George H. Moore, librarian of the New York Histor­ ical Society and later Superintendent of the Lenox Library, who grew enthusiastic about the stones and immediately asked what Stevens would take for the lot. Stevens estimated that his foray into ancient art had now cost him $3,000, and Moore might have them as Stevens had, at the cost of freight and storage. The Athen~um had had the use of the sculpture for three annual exhibitions, which brought in money from ticket sales (admission, 25 cents; catalogue, 10 cents)­ although Stevens saw nothing of it and so the trustees were asked if they were "dis­ posed" to purchase the reliefs without further delay. One of Stevens's confidential friends was dispatched to Boston to determine whether the authorities were in fact disposed, but found that there was no desire to purchase. Although the Athenceum was indebted to Stevens for his kindness in lending them for so long a time, he could remove the sculpture at his convenience. Stevens continues, "all appeared perfectly fair, serene, and friendly; but one high-minded Beacon Streeter, a little more frank than the others, obligingly communicated to my friend, not knowing that he was also my agent, the important fact that it was wholly unnecessary for us to buy those pon­ derous sculptures, for they will cost Mr. Stevens as much as they are worth to remove them to another town.' On further inquiry he found that this Fabian policy of inac­ tivity pervaded all the interested brain-carriers of the modern Athens." It is not clear how Stevens made his offer, but it must have remained unofficial since the Fine Arts Committee never brought the matter to the full board for a vote. Back in New York, Stevens and Moore considered the report, and Moore said "Well, Henry, this is Boston all over, and another piece of your Washington Auto­ graph-Book business a few years ago. If you wish the thing to go through you will have to subscribe the lion's share of the stock yourself." Stevens, however, had no de­ sire to be burned again, and after Moore consulted James Lenox, his obliging bene­ factor acquired the slabs for his Bible Collection, housing them at the New York His­ torical Society, and they were lost to Boston. "Thus it was," Stevens concluded, "that I recouped my money, and exercised my patience in performing another patriotic deed for a naughty New World." If Stevens's ownership had been purposefully obscured in Boston, it was further clouded when the slabs became the "Lenox Marbles." The New York Times reported the gift to the Historical Society on December 8, 1858, not only dropping any refer­ ence to Stevens or Boston, but now ascribing their origin to "the temple completed by Sardanapalus, 650 years before Christ," perhaps, if any reason beyond simple ig­ norance need be presumed, in an attempt to play up their connection to the Bible col­ lect.ion of the pious Lenox (the following January, The Historical Magazine repeated their errors, although the reliefs are now said to come from the north palace at Nin­ eveh, which is described with irresistibly comic Victorian parochialism as ''the Wind­ sor of Assyria"). The sculpture remained at the New York Historical Society at Second I3

Avenue and Eleventh Street until 1908, when it moved uptown with the rest of the collections. It remained there until 1937, when it was put on long-term loan ro the Brooklyn Museum. In 1955 ownership was transferred when Hagop Kevorkian do­ nated funds for its acquisition and Ashur-nasir-pal's name and inscriptions found themselves at rest in Brooklyn. Although the saga of the slabs left almost no trace in the history of the Athen(Eum, Stevens gave his account of the transaction in his Rec­ ollections ofjames Lenox, which he published privately in London in 1887, and Robert H. Dyson, Jr., succeeded in unraveling their curious peregrinations in the Brooklyn Museum Bulletin for the spring of 1957. The standard scholarly study of the slabs is to be found in Samuel M. Paley's King of the World: Ashur-nasir-pal II ofAssyria, 883-859 BC, which was published by the Museum in 1976. The Athen(Eum did not acquire King ofthe World when it appeared, although we are now trying to obtain a copy.

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