Institution data
| Institution field | Value |
|---|---|
Reg No. | Af,A154.72 |
PRN | EPF11272 |
Add ID/s | 9747-8 (William Webster numbers)~9750 (William Webster number)~7610 (William Webster number)~9786-7 (William Webster numbers) |
Bibliography | King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1907: Cat.24, figs.17-22 |
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 four brass human-faced pendant masks; two leopard-faced pendant masks. 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: 17. Bronze pendant £5.0.0. sold to. 20. Bronze pendant £7.10.0. sold to. 18. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to. Berlin Museum. 21. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to Leipzig Museum. 19. Bronze pendant. £5.0.0. sold to. 22. Bronze pendant. £3.10.0. sold to. Leipzig Museum.~ Inscription note: Handwritten in black ink. Descriptions 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 object depicted in this photograph were sold by William Webster as follows: 17. to Theodor Rautenstrauch via J.C. Stevens auction on 3 June 1902. Donated by Rautenstrauch in same year to the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne. Accession number: RJM 5253. 18. unknown. 19. to the Field Museum, Chicago in 1905. Accession number: 89796. 20. unknown. 21. to Hans Meyer by 1929. Possibly on loan to Leipzig Museum. By descent to Elisabeth Meyer until 1946. By descent to Meyer family until 2001. Purchased by the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig in 2001. Accession number: MAf 34570. 22. to Hans Meyer by 1929. In collections of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), St Petersburg, Russia by 1953. Accession number: MA϶ No. 595-29. |
URL | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-72 |
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