1998.208.15.10

Format: Print

Photographic process: Print gelatin silver

Height x Width 120.00 x 165.00 mm

View of a damaged or ruined (largely destroyed) walled building, with several doorways or entrances – described (in contemporary documentation) as being the 'outside corner' (though here seen from the interior) – of the king's (Oba's) residence, or palace or 'compound', in Benin City, photographed in the aftermath of the British military attack on the city.

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

-> Edo

Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins, uncertain

Date of photograph: 18/02/1897 - 12/1899, uncertain

Donated: uncertain

Notes on print: '1897/ Interior of the King's compound[,] Benin City/ Ling Roth p. 172. Figure 167' (handwritten in pencil on reverse of print).