Antiquities from the city of Benin and from other parts of West Africa in the British Museum / by Charles Hercules Read and Ormonde Maddock Dalton

British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · 1899 · London : British Museum, sold by Longmans & Co. [etc.], · 47 pictures

A British Museum catalogue of 1899 by Charles Hercules Read and Ormonde Maddock Dalton, documenting Benin City and other West African antiquities for a London scholarly and museum audience. The plates show rows of cast brass or bronze relief panels with standing figures, attendants and ornamental discs, photographed flat against a plain ground, giving a designer clear examples of stylised repeated figures, symmetrical arrangement and metalwork texture.

Benin City (Nigeria) -- Antiquities · Africa, West -- Antiquities · British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects -- England -- London

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