Objects Mentioned
Edo designations mentioned
Institution data
| Institution field | Value |
|---|---|
Reg No. | Af,A154.58 |
PRN | EPF11259 |
Add ID/s | 4951 (William Webster number)~5384-5 (William Webster numbers)~5443 (William Webster number)~6241-2 (William Webster numbers)~6447 (William Webster number)~6455 (William Webster number)~6706 (William Webster number) |
Bibliography | King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1898-9: Cat.19, figs.92-100 |
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 nine objects: two ivory tusks; two brass relief plaques (one fragmentary); two ivory horns; one powder flask; two brass armlets. 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 | 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: 92. Elephant tusk. 67 inches long £25.0.0. sold to. 94. Eelephant tusk. 59 1/2 inches long £20.0.0. sold to. Dresden Museum. 95. Ivory war hornn. 18 inches long. sold to Leiden Museum. 96. Bronze armlet. 10.0. sold to 97. Part of bronze plaque. £7.0.0. sold to. 98. Bronze armlet. 10.0. sold to. 99. Bronze powder flask. £4.0.0. sold to Leiden Museum. 100. Ivory war horn. 15.0. sold to. J.C. Brown, New York. ~ 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: 92. unknown. 93. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16084. 94. to Dr Walter Luboldt, Dresden in 1899. Donated by Luboldt in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 161953. 95. to the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-1. 96. unknown. 97. unknown. 98. unknown. 99. unknown. 100. unknown. |
URL | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-58 |
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