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[The king of Benin and his army] [graphic].
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Title
[The king of Benin and his army] [graphic].
Publisher
[London: s.n]
Publisher
ENG. London. 1670
Date
[1670]
Physical Description
1 print: woodcut; image 13 x 16 cm. (5 x 6.25 in)
Description
Shows the King of Benin (second from right), and the members of his army. As Ogilby explained, in one day, the king could raise "twenty thousand Men in Arms, and in time of need, eighty, or a hundred thousand: so becomes dreadful to all his Neighbors." According to Ogilby, the common soldiers usually left "the upper part of the Their Body naked, but on the lower [wore] a Cloth as fine as Silk." (p. 474) Members of nobility clothed themselves in scarlet ("as a Badge of Eminency"), or wore "Gorgets of Elephants and Leopard-Teeth, and high red Caps, Wrought and Quilted with Leopards and Civet-Cat Skins; unto which hangs a long Horse Tail for Ornament"). (p. 474)
Is part of
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676. Africa. London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX (1670).
Notes
Illustration in John Ogilby's Africa: Being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid: the Land of Negroes, Guinee, and Aethiopia, and Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto (London: Printed by Tho. Johnson, for the author, and are to be had at his house in White Fryers, M.DC.LXX [1670]), p. 475.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Africa: Images, Maps, and Geography.
Subject
Armies -- Benin.
Geographic subject
Benin -- Kings and rulers.
Benin -- Pictorial works -- 17th century.
Genre
Woodcuts -- 1660-1670.
Book illustrations -- 1660-1670.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | *Wing O163 14.F p 475
Accession number
14.F
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