Af,A154.50

EPF11250

6705 (William Webster number)~6710-11 (William Webster numbers)~6716-17 (William Webster numbers)

King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1898-9: Cat.19, figs.64-68

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 five objects: top, right and left proper: two wood stools with mudfish, top centre: wood hen figure. Bottom: two wood altars of the hand. 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: 64. Carved wood stool. £20.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 65. do.do. cock. £20.0.0. Gen. Pitt Rivers. 66. do.do. stool. £20.0.0. do. Dresden Museum. 67. do. do. executioners block £35.0.0. do. Gen Pitt Rivers. 68. do. do.do. do. £35.0.0. Berlin Museum. ~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices 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: 64. J. C. Stevens auction on 3 June 1902 to Theodor Rautenstrauch. Donated by Rautenstrauch in same year to Rautenstracuh-Joest-Musuem, Cologne. Accession number: RJM 1920/19. 65. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. By April 1978 purchased by Mamadou Raita. In private collection of C. M. Stanley, Muscatine, USA. By 1986 in collection of University of Iowa Museum of Art. Accession number: X1986.316. 66. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16118. 67. to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1899. Accession number: III C 8758a,b. 68. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. Before 1972 in private collection of James G. Hanes. Donated by Hanes in same year to North Carolina Museum of Art, USA. Accession number: G.72.2.4.

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