Af,A154.33

EPF11233

3809 (William Webster number)~6803 (William Webster number)~6809-10 (William Webster numbers)~6929-32 (William Webster numbers)~6941 (William Webster number)

King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1898-9: Cat.21, figs. 32-40

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 nine objects made of brass and ivory: seven relief plaques; one horn; one fragmentary ?container. 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: 32. Bronze plaque. £15.15.0. sold to. Dresden Museum. 35. Bronze object.15.0. sold to. 38. Bronze plaque £10.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 34. Bronze plaque £15.15.0. sold to. Berlin Museum. 37. Bronze plaque £5.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 40. Bronze plaque. £12.10.0. sold to. 33. Small elephant tusk with fetish mark, £1.1.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 36. Bronze plaque. £10.0.0. do. Dresden Museum. 39. do. do. £35.0.0. do. Dresden Museum. ~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices and some 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: 32: to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16082. 33: Probably to Arthur Baessler in 1900. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16160. 34: to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1899. Accession number: III C 9947. 35: date unknown to Herrmann and Else Meyer until 1932. Donated by Herrmann Meyer to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig in 1932. Accession number: MAf 29791. 36: to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16092. 37: to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16090. 38: to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16093. 39: unknown 40: unknown

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