Iconography

IMAGE OF THE BLACK ARCHIVE

Voyages VI. 1688-1699

PORTRAITS

Rulers / Modern / Africa / King of Benin

Further details

Inhabitants of Benin. Etching. Illustration for La Croix, Relation universelle, 3, 172

Artist or creator

Meurs, Jacob van (1617/1618-1679) (after). Recut after the illustration in Olfert Dapper, Description de l'Afrique, Amsterdam 1686, p. 311.

Date

1688

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Book, text or document (source of image)

La Croix, Antoine Phérotée de (1640-1715). Relation universelle de l'Afrique ancienne et moderne…. Lyon. 1688.

Contact

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