Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British Museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921
A privately printed 1921 tribute volume issued in London for Sir Charles Hercules Read on his retirement from the British Museum, recording acquisitions to its British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography department. The plates show photographed museum objects: a tall incised pottery jar with a band of running animals, a cast bronze mask, and embossed bronze plaques with beasts and figures. A designer might take from them the stamped, embossed animal-band patterns and the cropped, sepia museum-object photography.
