Institutional metadata
Add ID/s
6804 (William Webster number)~6806 (William Webster number)~6910 (William Webster number)~6915-17 (William Webster numbers)~6939-40 (William Webster numbers)~6978 (William Webster number)
Bibliography
King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1898-9: Cat.21, figs. 113-121
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 nine objects: lower section of brass figure; antelope head box & lid; brass fan; two brass commemorative heads; upper section of brass altar group; three brass bases/supports.
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: 113. Lower portion of a bronze figure, £1.0.0. sold to ? Cologne
116. Bronze base. £30.0.0. sold to
119. Bronze base. £5.0.0. sold to.
115. Embossed brass fan. sold to. Berlin Museum
118. Bronze base. £25.0.0. sold to
121. Bronze base. £5.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum
114. Carved wood box partly covered with brass. £10.0.0. sold to. Gen. Pitt. Rivers.
117. Bronze group of warriors and leopards. £30.0.0. do. Berlin Museum.
120. Bronze base. £5.0.0. 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.
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 as follows: 113. to J. C. Stevens sale 3 June 1902. Purchased by Theodor Rautenstrauch, Germany. Donated by Rautenstrach to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne in the same year. Accession number: RJM 17941. 114. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. 115. unknown. 116. unknown. 117. unknown. 118. unknown. 119. to Arthur Baessler in 1902. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 13593. 120. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16111. 121. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16108.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-57