Tag: Edo art


  • Inside the House of Plunder: George W. Neville’s Weybridge Fireplace, c. 1900s

    A rare photograph of the Weybridge home of George W. Neville (1852–1929) offers a haunting glimpse into the private collection of a British official who once worked in Lagos for the Elder Dempster Shipping Company during the height of colonial expansion. Neville’s collection, amassed after the 1897 Benin Expedition, included 128 objects taken from the…