Institutional metadata
Object Number
1998.335.16
Photographic Process
Photographic process: Print gelatin silver
Dimensions
Height x Width 94.00 x 69.00 mm; Height x Width 208.00 x 144.00 mm; Height x Width 102.00 x 80.00 mm
Description
Portrait of a British officer, identified as Capt. Charles Ringer, standing, with washing hanging on a line behind him.
Geographical Provenance
Africa -> Western Africa -> Nigeria, Edo State; Benin City
Cultural Groups
-> Edo; European -> British
Persons
Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Named Person: Charles Harding Newman Ringer; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins
Named Persons
Capt. Charles Harding Newman Ringer
Dating
Date of photograph: 18/02/1897 - 15/03/1897
Primary Documentation
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: '16.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'C. H. Ringer' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print).; Another print [2019.32.2.42] of the same photograph in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections has a different/related caption, providing some further or additional context: 'Light & airy' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).