Af,A154.21

EPF11222

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 carved wooden panels forming elements of stool/s. Depict Portuguese and Edo dignitaries with images of umbrellas, cannon, barrels and ships. 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: Eight carved wood panels. £21.1.0. sold to Berlin Museum. ~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of object from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative 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 carved wood panels depicted in this photograph were sold by William Webster in 1898 to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staaliche Museen zu Berlin. Accession number: III C 8063-8071. This page of the album also contains Af,A154.22 & 23 (centre and left proper).

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-21