Edo designations mentioned
Institution data
| Institution field | Value |
|---|---|
Reg No. | Af,A154.80 |
PRN | EPF11281 |
Add ID/s | 9472 (William Webster number)~9491 (William Webster number)~9739-40 (William Webster numbers)~9765 (William Webster number)~9796 (William Webster number)~9809 (William Webster number) |
Bibliography | King & Waterfield 2006: ~Webster 1907: Cat.24, figs.45-51 |
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 seven commemorative heads: one wooden head; one ivory head; one Queen Mother brass head; four Oba (king) brass heads. 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: 45. Carved wood mask base. £15.0.0. 46. Carved ivory mask base. £7.10.0. Dresden Museum. 47. Bronze mask base. £25.0.0. 48. Bronze mask base. £25.0.0. 49. Bronze mask base. £35.0.0. 50. Bronze mask base. £45.0.0. Stockholm Museum. 51. Bronze mask base. £30.0.0.~ 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 object depicted in this photograph was sold by William Webster as follows: 45. unknown. 46. to Arthur Baessler in 1900. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16159. 47. unknown. 48. unknown. 49. to E. E. Ayer by 1902. Purchased from Ayer by the Field Museum, Chicago in 1902. Accession number: 8149. 50. possibly to Eric von Rosen by 1901. Donated by Rosen to the Världskultur Museerna, National Musuems of World Culture, Stockholm in same year. Accession number: 1901.07.0001. 51. unknown. |
URL | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-80 |
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