1998.208.15.9

Format: Print

Photographic process: Print gelatin silver

Height x Width 120.00 x 165.00 mm

View of a damaged or ruined (largely destroyed) house, otherwise unidentified, 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/ Ruined house, Benin City./ Ling Roth p. 170/ Fig. 166' (handwritten in pencil on reverse of print); 'Ruined house, Benin City' (handwritten again in pencil, in a different hand, on reverse of print).