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King & Waterfield 2006:
Title/s
Benin Bronzes and Ivories (Series)
Object Name/s
photographic print (black and white)~album
Technique/s
photographic process
Description (full)
Photograph (black and white); mounted on card, part of a bound album. View of relief plaque with Oba (king) mounted on horse flanked by attendants. Outer two attendants hold shields over the Oba.
Photographic process.
Dimension/s
Height: 24.00 cm (page)~Width: 27.40 cm (page)
Subject/s
king/queen ~equestrian
Previous Owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: William Downing Webster
Prod. Place/s
Photographed in: London
Assoc. Ethnic Name/s
Associated with: Edo
Assoc. Place/s
Associated with: Benin City
Assoc. Event/s
Associated Event: British Expedition to Benin City - 1897
Inscription/s
Inscription:~ Inscription details: inscription (front of mount; below photograph) in English~ Inscription quoted: Bronze plaque. £45.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of object from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase price and name of vendor. ~Inscription:~ Inscription details: lettering (front of mount; top left proper corner) in English~ Inscription quoted: B crossed through~ Inscription note: Handwritten in pencil.
Curator's Comment/s
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 relief plaque depicted in this photograph was sold by William Webster to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in the same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16136.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-4