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Digital Benin Research
British Museum
institution
Arthur Prest photograph album
archival unit
Photograph
document type
1890-01-01/1905-01-01
date
specific objects
edo designations
Prest, Arthur H.
source
target
mention
Institutional metadata
Reg No.
Af,A46.35
PRN
EPF3063
Add ID/s
AF/CA46/35 (copy print number)
Object Name/s
photographic print (black and white)
Material/s
paper
Technique/s
photographic process
Description (full)
Photograph (black and white), from an album; view of two rectangular brick buildings with overhanging corrugated iron roofs. Flag pole at right flying Union flag. Benin City. Albumen print.
Dimension/s
Length: 14.30 cm~Width: 20.00 cm
Subject/s
government building ~flag/pennant
Previous Owner
Previous owner/ex-collection: Arthur Henry Prest
Date/s
1890-1905
Prod. Place/s
Photographed in: Benin City
Assoc. Ethnic Name/s
Representation of: British
Assoc. Place/s
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: "Black Officials quarters at Residency" [manuscript note on album paper]; "D. O. Paterson Accra" [printed note on photograph].
Curator's Comment/s
Paterson was based in Accra (see inscription). It is unclear whether Paterson was the photographer or the printer of the photograph. (Pers. comm. H Cornwall-Jones, 10/06/1996.)~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-A46-35