Institutional metadata
Add ID/s
AF/CA46/2 (copy print number)
Object Name/s
photographic print (black and white)
Technique/s
photographic process
Description (full)
Photograph (black and white), from an album; view of outer walls of city. Cattle in foreground. Man, woman and child on paths. Benin City.
Albumen print.
Dimension/s
Length: 14.15 cm~Width: 19.50 cm
Subject/s
animal ~farming
Previous Owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: Arthur Henry Prest
Prod. Place/s
Made in: Benin City
Assoc. Ethnic Name/s
Representation of: Edo
Assoc. Place/s
Topographic representation of: Benin City
Inscription/s
Inscription:~ Inscription details: annotation~ Inscription quoted: Album Title: "1st BENIN. WARRI. & SAPELE. 2nd NEW CALABAR. BONNY. OPOBO & QUA COUNTRY." [manuscript note on album paper].
Original Description: "Without the City walls Benin" [manuscript note on album paper].
Curator's Comment/s
Ridges in the walls indicate that this is part of the royal quarter of Benin City. (pers. comm. N F Barley, 04/06/1996.) ~Photographs in collections Af,A46 and Af,A47 were originally contained in single album containing 176 photographs.
URL
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A46-2