Digital Benin Research
British Museum
institution
W. D. Webster photograph album
archival unit
Photograph Album
document type
1898-01-01/1899-12-31
date
specific objects
Okhuo open in Ẹyo Otọ
Okpia open in Ẹyo Otọ
edo designations
Webster, William Downing
source
target
Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
Grassi Museum of Ethnology, Leipzig
mention
Institutional metadata
Reg No.
Af,A154.69
PRN
EPF11268
Add ID/s
9366 (William Webster number)~9794-5 (William Webster numbers)
Bibliography
King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1907: Cat.24, figs.2-4
Title/s
Benin Bronzes and Ivories (Series)
Object Name/s
photographic print (black and white)~album
Material/s
paper
Technique/s
photographic process
Description (full)
Photograph (black and white); mounted on card, part of a bound album. View of three brass figures: female figure at right proper standing on square pedestal base with arms raised. Central male figure with hands held out in front standing on square pedestal base. Portuguese soldier figure at left proper with firearm standing on square pedestal base. Photographic process.
Dimension/s
Height: 24.00 cm (page)~Width: 27.40 cm (page)
Subject/s
Previous Owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: William Downing Webster
Date/s
1898-1899 (circa)
Prod. Place/s
Photographed in: London
Assoc. Ethnic Name/s
Made by: Edo
Assoc. Place/s
Associated with: Benin City
Assoc. Event/s
Inscription/s
Inscription:~ Inscription details: inscription (front of mount; below photograph) in English~ Inscription quoted: 2. Bronze figure. £45.0.0. Berlin Museum. 3. Bronze figure. £30.0.0. Leipzig Museum. 4. Bronze figure. £50.0.0. Berlin Museum.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Description of objects from the Kingdom of Benin, with indicative purchase prices and name 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 object depicted in this photograph were sold by William Webster as follows: 2. to Hans Meyer in 1900. By exhange with Meyer in 1900 to Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Accession number: III C 10864. 3. to Hans Meyer by 1929. Possibly on loan to Leipzig Museum. By 1953 in the collection of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), St Petersburg, Russia. Accession number: MA϶ No. 595-5. 4. to Hans Meyer in 1900. By exhange with Meyer in 1900 to Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Accession number: III C 10863.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-69