Af,A154.3

EPF11204

King & Waterfield 2006:

Benin Bronzes and Ivories (Series)

photographic print (black and white)~album

paper

photographic process

Photograph (black and white); mounted on card, part of a bound album. View of iron staff with figures of birds and chameleons standing upright on grass. Photographic process.

Height: 24.00 cm (page)~Width: 27.40 cm (page)

bird ~mammal

Previous owner/ex-collection: William Downing Webster

1898-1899 (circa)

Photographed in: London

Associated with: Edo

Associated with: Benin City

Associated Event: British Expedition to Benin City - 1897

Inscription:~ Inscription details: inscription (front of mount; below photograph) in English~ Inscription quoted: Iron standard. £15.0.0 sold to Dresden Museum.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Iron staff from the Kingdom of Benin sold by William D. Webster to Dresden Museum with purchase price.

This album contains photographs of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria sold by the London-based dealer, William Downing Webster. Many of the photographs are annotated with information relating to the vendor/s and some include purchase prices. It is likely that the photographic series was compiled by Webster in the early 1900s. The staff depicted in this photograph was sold by William Websteras to Arthur Baessler in 1900. Donated by Baessler to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16153. This page of the album also includes photograph Af,A154.2 (right proper).

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-3