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Object Number
1998.335.2
Format
Format: Print
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 109.00 x 78.00 mm
Description
Portrait of Ralph Moor (Commissioner and Consul-General of the Niger Coast Protectorate), seated, probably taken on board the steam-yacht 'Ivy'.
Geographical Provenance
Europe -> Southern Europe, uncertain; Africa -> Western Africa, uncertain
Cultural Groups
European -> British
Persons
Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Named Person: Ralph Denham Rayment Moor; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins
Named Persons
Ralph Denham Rayment Moor
Dating
Date of photograph: 16/01/1897 - 24/01/1897, uncertain; Date of photograph: 09/02/1897 - 10/02/1897, uncertain
Acqu. Date
Donated: 1968
Primary Documentation
Notes on print/mount: 'R' (ink); 'RKG' (pencil) (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: '2.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'Sir R. D. Moor K.C.M.G./ "The Chief"' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).; Another print [2019.32.2.19] of the same photograph in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections has a different/related caption, providing some further or additional context: 'C. C.' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount); 'Sir R[.] Moor' (handwritten caption in pencil below the print on page mount).