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The Tower of Babel or Birs Nimrud Restored
William Simpson (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1823–1899 London)
ca. 1885
- Medium
- Watercolor over graphite
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- H. 13 3/4 × W. 24 7/16 in. (35 × 62 cm) Frame H. 22 13/16 × W. 28 3/8 in. (58 × 72 cm)
- Culture
- British
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ancient West Asian Art
- Credit line
- Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
