H-19, from Room H, Northwest Palace of Nimrud, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist

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© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
H-19, from Room H, Northwest Palace of Nimrud, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman.
Artist/Maker (Iraqi-American, born 1973)
Date2021
MediumMiddle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, on panel, with accompanying didactic information
DimensionsOverall: 90 1/2 × 82 1/4 × 4 in. (229.9 × 208.9 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds donated by Wendy C. H. Wellin in Honor of Keith Sears Wellin
Object number2021.5.2
Not on view
DescriptionH-19 LOCATION: In situ until 2015; destroyed by ISIS in 2015 We were praying for it [to be saved]. —Abdullah Hamoud
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Exhibition History 2021
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). MICHAEL RAKOWITZ: NIMRUD, October 19, 2020 - June 18, 2021.
Provenance 2021: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
Inscribed Cuneiform runs across center of panel.
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
H-12, from Room H, Northwest Palace of Nimrud, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, on panel, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.1
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Headless Standing Female Figure, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.3
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Male Head, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.4
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Rectangular Base of Statue with Feet and Lower Legs, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.5
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Kneeling Male Figure Facing Left, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.6
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Fragments of Rectangular Plaque with Three Rows of Reliefs, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.7
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Bowl, Ubaid Period, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.8
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Bowl, Billah Ware, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.9
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Fragment of Plaque with Relief Decoration, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.10
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Fragment of Female Head, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.11
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Fragment of a relief from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud
Date: c. 883-859 BCE
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
H. M. S. Pallas. saluting the Governor. at Grenada
H. M. S. Pallas. saluting the Governor. at Grenada
W. Mainwaring
Date: 1820
Medium: Pencil and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.29