Treat the virtual gallery as a catalogue, not inventory
The National Gallery's virtual collection presents Nigerian artworks across multiple media with institution-supplied information. Use individual records to study documented artist names, titles, materials, and interpretive language. A work visible online may be in public custody or presented for educational access; the page does not make it privately purchasable or licensed for reuse. It also cannot authenticate an unrelated object that merely resembles an image on screen.
Create a candidate-object file containing maker, title, date, medium, dimensions, mass, markings, edition details, condition, provenance, rights, cultural context, and chain of custody. Save exact comparison links and catalogue identifiers, then explain the limited reason for each comparison. Ask the institution or an appropriate specialist about conflicting metadata. Do not infer ownership, lawful transfer, valuation, physical location, or reproduction permission from a thumbnail or search result.



