1998.335.7

Format: Print

Photographic process: Print gelatin silver

Height x Width 69.00 x 94.00 mm; Height x Width 208.00 x 144.00 mm; Height x Width 79.00 x 109.00 mm

View of a decorated metal door and the wall surrounding it, being one of the entrances to the king's (Oba's) residence, or palace or 'compound', in Benin City. A handwritten caption elsewhere describes the photograph as having been taken '[a]fter the fire'.

Africa -> Western Africa -> Nigeria, Edo State; Benin City

-> Edo

Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Photographer: Norman Burrows, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins

Date of photograph: 21/02/1897 - 15/03/1897

Donated: 1968

Notes on print/mount: 'R' (ink) (being initials and/or annotations on reverse of print, in various hands and in ink and pencil). It is not explicitly clear to what or whom these refer, beyond being the initials or names of British officers on the military campaign.; Notes on print/mount: '7.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'One of the entrances to the King's compound' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).; Another print [2019.32.2.31] of the same photograph in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections has a different/related caption, providing some further or additional context: 'After the fire' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).