Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, GCB, FRS (1810 – 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in February 1850 on account of being "The Discoverer of the key to the Ancient Persian, Babylonian, and Assyrian Inscriptions in the Cuneiform character. The Author of various papers on the philology, antiquities, and Geography of Mesopotamia and Central Asia. Eminent as a Scholar".

---

Size: 3137px × 4200px
Location: Great Britain
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 19th, ancient, antiquarian, antiquities, archaeologist, army, art, assyria, assyriology, author, authors, babylon, black, british, bygone, century, character, company, creswicke, culture, cuneformist, cuneiform, drawing, east, english, engraving, etching, father, fine, graphic, henry, heritage, historian, historic, history, iconic, illustration, india, language, line, litho, lithograph, mesopotamia, middle, monochrome, officer, orientalist, persia, pictorial, picture, politician, portrait, rawlinson, sir, sketch, study, victorian, white, woodcut