Af,A154.51

EPF11252

5857 (William Webster number)~5860 (William Webster number)~5869 (William Webster number)~6369 (William Webster number)~6393 (William Webster number)~6445 (William Webster number)~6451 (William Webster number)~6461 (William Webster number)~6687 (William Webster number)~6689 (William Webster number)

King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1898-9: Cat.18, figs.65-75

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 eleven objects: six brass relief plaques; one brass commemorative head; one brass pendant mask; two brass attendant figures; one brass pendant plaque. 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: 65. Bronze plaque. £5.0.0. sold to 67. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to. 68. Bronze plaque. £15.0.0. sold to Copenhagen Museum. 70. Bronze plaque. £15.0.0. sold to Basel Museum. 71. Bronze figure. £35.0.0. sold to Copenhagen Museum. 75. Bronze figure. £35.0.0. sold to. Dresden Museum. 66. Bronze mask base. £25.0.0. sold to Berlin Museum. 69. Bronze plaque. £15.0.0. do. 72. do. do. £15.0.0. do. Dresden Museum 73. d.o do. £8.0.0. do. 74. Bronze pendant. £2.10.0. do.~ 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: 65: to the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, in 1902. Accession number: E 1902.446. 66. date unknown until 1958 with dealer John J. Klejman, New York; Purchased by Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York in 1958. On loan to Museum of Primitive Art, New York 1958-1972. Donated by Rockefeller to Museum of Primitive Art in 1972. Transferred to Metroploitan Museum of Art in 1978. Accession number: 1978.412.324. 67. unknown. 68. to the Nationalmuseet, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen in 1899. Accession number: 6461. 69. to the Field Museum, Chicago in 1907. Accession number: 91247. 70. to the Museum der Kulturen, Basel in 1899. Accession number: III 1041. 71. to the Nationalmuseet, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen in 1899. Accession number: 6687. 72. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16091. 73. date unknown until 1949 to Frederick William Green. Bequest from Green in 1950 to the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Accession number: 1950.270. 74. to the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh in 1901. Accession number: A.1901.208. 75. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16120.

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