1998.208.15.6

Format: Print

Photographic process: Print gelatin silver

Height x Width 120.00 x 165.00 mm

View of an exterior or protective wall ('compound') around an unidentified house in Benin City, with vegetation growing in the foreground, photographed some time 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/ A compound, Benin City/ Ling Roth p. 176 Fig. 169' (handwritten in pencil on reverse of print).