# The Tower of Babel or Birs Nimrud Restored

- By: William Simpson (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1823–1899 London)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/891634)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/an/web-large/DP-33329-001.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)