Institutional metadata
Add ID/s
8804 (William Webster number )
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 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.
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: 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.
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 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.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-15