1998.335.9

Format: Print

Photographic process: Print gelatin silver

Height x Width 69.00 x 94.00 mm; Height x Width 208.00 x 144.00 mm; Height x Width 77.00 x 102.00 mm

View of the king's (Oba's) residence, or palace or 'compound', in Benin City.

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

-> Edo

Photographer: Reginald Kerr Granville, uncertain; Photographer: Herbert Sutherland Walker, uncertain; Expedition or compiler: Reginald Kerr Granville; Pitt Rivers Museum source: Hugh Nevin Nevins

Date of photograph: 18/02/1897 - 15/03/1897

Donated: 1968

Notes on print/mount: 'R' (ink); 'RKG' (pencil); 'CCB' (pencil); 'C. Clive Bayley/ Wellington Club/ Grosvenor Pl.' (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: '9.' (numbering in album, handwritten in black ink); 'The temporary Residency' (handwritten caption in black ink below the print on page mount).; Another print [2019.32.2.37] of the same photograph in the Pitt Rivers Museum's collections has a different/related caption, providing some further or additional context: 'Views in Benin' (handwritten caption in black ink above the print on page mount).