Institutional metadata
Add ID/s
9468 (William Webster number)~9488 (William Webster number)
Bibliography
King & Waterfield 2006:
Title/s
Benin Bronzes and Ivories (Series)
Object Name/s
photographic print (black and white)~album
Technique/s
photographic process
Description (full)
Photograph (black and white); mounted on card, part of a bound album. View of two brass relief plaques: right proper: single figure holding sword aloft in right proper hand; left proper: single figure holding eben sword aloft in right proper hand.
Photographic process.
Dimension/s
Height: 24.00 cm (page)~Width: 27.40 cm (page)
Previous Owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: William Downing Webster
Prod. Place/s
Photographed in: London
Assoc. Ethnic Name/s
Associated with: Edo
Assoc. Place/s
Associated with: Benin City
Assoc. Event/s
Associated Event: British Expedition to Benin City - 1897
Inscription/s
Inscription:~ Inscription details: inscription (front of mount; below photograph) in English~ Inscription quoted: 9488. Bronze plaque. £17.17.0. sold to Leiden Museum. Holland.
9468. do. do. £15.15.0. do. Leiden Museum, Holland.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices and names of vendors.
Curator's Comment/s
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 to the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-17 (left proper) and RV-1243-18 (right proper). This page of the album also includes photograph Af, A154.55.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-54