Af,A154.15

EPF11216

8804 (William Webster number )

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 relief plaque with warrior figure holding shield in left proper hand and spear in other. Flanked by naked figure holding eben sword aloft in both hands. Two smaller scale musicians, one blowing horn, other playing gong. Rosettes in each corner. Photographic process.

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

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: Bronze plaque. £40.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of object from the Kingdom of Benin, with purchase price and name of vendor.

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 in 1899 to Arthur Baessler. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16137.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-15