Note 263 — Chapter II · SCULPTURE. (continued 3)

Mr. Layard intended to give accurate and complete drawings of all the bas-reliefs at Bavian. For that purpose he despatched to the valley a young artist named Bell, who had been sent out to him by the authorities of the British Museum. Unhappily, this young man was drowned while bathing in the torrent, in July, 1851. Before his death he seems only to have copied the great relief; hence, in Layard’s great work Bavian is represented only by the plate we have copied. In the Discoveries a few additional sketches are given.