Photograph Album
Unit
W. D. Webster photograph album
Institution
British Museum Date
January 1, 1898 to December 31, 1899
Actors
Source actors
Webster, William Downing
Mentioned actors
Pitt-Rivers (Lane Fox), Augustus Henry
Historisches Museum, Dresden
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Edo designations mentioned
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Institution data
| Institution field | Value |
|---|---|
Reg No. | Af,A154.43 |
PRN | EPF11244 |
Add ID/s | 5869 (William Webster number)~6443 (William Webster number)~6882 (William Webster number)~6884-89 (William Webster numbers)~6892-6900 (William Webster numbers) |
Bibliography | King & Waterfield 2006: ~Pitt-Rivers 1900: Pl. 44, figs. 343-4 (Number 83) |
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 ten copper alloy armcuffs, six human-faced pendant masks, one crocodile-headed pendant madsk, onel eopard-headed pendant mask, one ram-headed pendant. 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: 75.Bronze armlet. £3.10.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 76. Brass armlet. £2.0.0. sold to Gen Pitt-Rivers 77. Bronze armlet. £3.10.0. sold to Leiden Museum. 78. Brass armlet. £2.0.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 79. Bronze armlet. £3.10.0. sold to 80. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to. Dresden Museum. 81. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 82. Bronze pendant £7.10.0. sold toLeiden Museum. 83. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to Gen. Pitt. Rivers. 84. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to 85. Bronze pendant. £5.0.0. sold to Berlin Museum. 86. Bronze pendant. £6.0.0. sold to Berlin Museum. 87. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to Berlin Museum. 88. Bronze pendant. £7.10.0. sold to Dresden Museum. 89. Bronze armlet. £3.10.0. soldto Leipzig Museum. 90. Brass armlet. £2.0.0. sold to. 91. Bronze armlet. £3.10.0. sold to 92. Brass armlet. £1.10.0. sold to. 93. Bronze armlet. £2.10.0. sold to. ~ 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: 75. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16097. 76. to General Augustus Pitt Rivers by 1900. 77. to the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum, Leiden in 1899. Accession number RV-1243-4.007. 78. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16096. 79. unknown. 80. possibly to Wiilliam Oldman by 1912. Possibly purchased by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum), USA. Accession number: AF20788. 81. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16113. 82. to the Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum, Leiden in 1900. Accession number: RV-1243-20. 83. to General August Pitt Rivers in 1899. Acquired by Alexander-Suggs Gallery, St. Louis; Merton D. Simpson, New York until 1991. Donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1991 by Mr & Mrs Klaus G. Perls, Accession number 1991.162.9. 84. unknown. 85. to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1899. Accession number III C 9950. 86. to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin before 1913. Accession number III C 9952. 87. to the Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in 1899. Accession number III C 9951. 88. to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16114. 89. to Hans Meyer. On loan until 1929 to Leipzig Museum. By 1953 to the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), St Petersburg, Russia. Accession number: MA϶ No. 595-30. 90. unknown. 91. to to Arthur Baessler in 1899. Donated by Baessler in same year to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony - Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden. Accession number: 16095. 92. to the Field Museum, Chicago in 1905. Accession number: 89767. 93. to Frederick William Green before 1949. Bequest from Green to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge in 1950. Accession number: 1950.269A. |
URL | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Af-A154-43 |
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