Af,A154.32

EPF11231

9924 (William Webster number)~9934 (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 two objects: ivory commemorative head and cylindrical brass box with figures on lid. 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: 9924. Ivory mask base. £20.0.0. sold to [?Berlin- in pencil]. 9934. Bronze box. £20.0.0. do. Vienna Museum.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of object from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase price and names of vendors.

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 objects depicted in this photograph were sold by William Webster as follows: 9924: to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1903. Accession number: III C 17109. 9934: unknown (from Ghana). This page of the album also depicts photographs Af,A154.29, 30 & 31.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-32