Institutional metadata
Bibliography
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 carved wooden panel (top of seat?) depicting figure of Oba (king) with mudfish legs and holding swords aloft flanked by other figrues.
Photographic process.
Dimension/s
Height: 24.00 cm (page)~Width: 27.40 cm (page)
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: Carved wood table top £7.0.0. sold to Basel Museum. Switzerland.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of object from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase price and name of vendor.
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 carved wood panel depicted in this photograph iwas sold by William Webster in 1899 to the Museum der Kulturen Basel. Accession number: 99-6. This page of the album also includes photographs Af,A154.8 & 9 (top row) and 11 & 12 (bottom row).
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-11