Institutional metadata
Add ID/s
9924 (William Webster number)~9934 (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 two objects: ivory commemorative head and cylindrical brass box with figures on lid.
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: 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.
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 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.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-32