Af,A154.38

EPF11238

9920 (William Webster number)~9933 (William Webster number)

King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1900: Cat.27, figs. 68 & 70

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 brass figures: on right proper figure holding shield in left proper hand and spear in right hand; on right proper Ewua figure wearing wide-brimmed hat and holding two staffs. 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: 9933. Bronze figure. £7.10.0. sold to. 9920. do. do. £5.0.0. do. ~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices.

This album contains photographs of objects fom 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 purchased from William Webster as follows: 9920: to the Field Museum, Chicago in 1905. Accession number: 89786. 9933: unknown until 1904. Sold on 30 November 1904 possibly to Samuel G Fenton on behalf of Francis John Henry Jenkinson. Donated by Jenkinson to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Accession number: E 1904.377. This page also depicts photographs Af,A154. 36, 37, 39 and 40. "

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-38