Af,A154.48

EPF11249

8985 (William Webster number)~9362 (William Webster number)

King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1900: Cat.24, fig.57

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 rellief plaques: at right proper depicting two mudfish seen from above. At left proper single snake with circular motifs on body. 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: 8985. Bronze plaque. £10.0.0. sold to 9362. do. do. £10.0.0. do. Dresden Museum. ~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices and names of 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: 8985. to Hans Meyer by 1907. Donated by Meyer to the Världskultur Museerna, National Museums of World Culture, Stockholm. Accession number: 1907.44.0384. 9362. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16061. This page of the album also includes photograph Af,A154.47.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-48