WARD, Herbert (1862-1919)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0402 HLW |
Held at | : Royal Geographical Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Collections/Collections.htm › |
Full title | : WARD, Herbert (1862-1919) |
Date(s) | : 1881-1996 |
Level of description | : collection |
Extent | : 1 box, 3 envelopes |
Name of creator(s) | : Ward | Herbert | 1862-1919 | sculptor |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1862; lived in the Congo Free State (Zaire), 1884-1889; member of Henry M Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition to the Congo, 1886-1889; returned to Europe, where he lectured and wrote on his experiences in the Congo Free State, 1889; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1893-1919; began formal art training, 1893 including studying sculpting in Paris; became a sculptor, creating bronzes of Africans and African life; died 1919.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to Herbert Ward, 1881-1996, including a bound book of newscuttings relating to Emin Pasha (and some Arctic items) and a video of Sir Colville Barclay speaking about his grandfather, Herbert Ward, filmed 1996.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
One scrapbook, three files, and a videotape.
Conditions governing access:
Accessed via the Foyle Reading Room. Free of charge for Fellows, Members and those with valid academic identification. All other users pay a charge and must bring identification in order to register on arrival.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopying at Archivist's discretion and subject to completion of 'application for copies' form. No reproduction or publication without permission of the RGS-IBG Archivist.
Finding aids:
Archival Information
Archival history:
Arrived in two accessions. The video was gifted to the archive in 1996.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Allied Materials
Related material:
RGS Archives, 1881-1910, Ward, Herbert. (one letter 1907).
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Prepared by an archives volunteer using existing finding aids. Revised by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: 'Arrested Development: Race and Evolution in the Sculpture of Herbert Ward', by Hugh Marles, Oxford Art Journal Vol. 19, No. 1 (1996), pp 16-28.
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2008
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