Key Information

Photographer

Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > View from Potala

Accession number

1998.285.282.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

Aerial view of Lhasa with mountains in distance.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

H.258

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.258

Published

'Portrait of the Dalai Lama', Sir Charles Bell, London: Collins, 1946 [view list of illustrations]

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] L. [Subject of Chapter] Lhasa [Subject of Illustration] H.258 (x) Lhasa city from the Potala. In winter. [Remarks] L.240 (Y in L)"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: This image forms the left side of a panorama. The right side can be seen in 1998.285.277 [MS 20/05/2006]

Contemporary Publication -

Contemporary Publication - This image was published in 'Portrait of the Dalai Lama', Sir Charles Bell, London: Collins, 1946, as a panorama between pages 232 and 233 [MS 20/05/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.282.1.html>.

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