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Antique works of art from Benin : collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers

1900 · [London] : Printed privately · 35 pictures

Antique works of art from Benin, a privately printed catalogue of 1900 issued in London by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers, who collected the objects, and aimed at collectors and museum scholars. The plates show bronze plaques, carved ivory tusks and staffs, cast brass heads, a bronze figure, and ceremonial swords, photographed in grey tones on cream pages with numbered labels and fine detail.

Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, 1827-1900 · Art objects · Art, African

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