This essay deals with public reaction to the colossal, winged, human-headed bull and lion sculptures unearthed by A. H. Layard from what he proclaimed as the ruins of Nineveh. The first examples arrived at the British Museum in 1850. Reproductions were on view at the Nineveh Court in the Sydenham Crystal Palace (opened 1854). The more popular of these two types---the bull---was quickly linked to the British image of John Bull, while in subsequent fantasies for children by Lewis Carroll and Edith Nesbit, the Assyrian bull became further domesticated and associated with increasingly bizarre combinations.
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