Sera Monastery from above

Sera Monastery from above

1998.131.354 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

October 14th-17th 1936

Region

Lhasa Area > Sera

Accession number

1998.131.354

Image Dimensions

80 x 110

Looking down on Sera monastery with the Lhasa Valley beyond

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate , Negative Quarter Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1994

Donated by

Faith Spencer Chapman

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Previous Catologue Number

C.8.12 [view film roll]

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.354

Other Information

In Negative - '12' has been printed on the bottom edge of the negative [MS 21/03/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'On right of 11 [C.8.11 - From Sera hill view SE] view s. over Trapje'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 1, From Gangtok to the Natu La August 1936: ‘31/2 - Panorama over Lhasa plain at 11,800 ft with hills rising to 19,000 ft. The square wall on the right encloses the barracks and mint. Lhasa lies on to the right’ [MS 21/03/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.8' comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Potala and Lhasa, officials coming through Pargo Kaling, Turquoise Bridge, Tsarong, Trimon, views from and of Sera, a woman washing clothes, shepherd with sling, football teams. They were possibly taken between October 13th - 20th 1036. This image may have been taken between October 14th - 17th 1936, as on these days there were no official engagements according to the official mission diary, which might have enabled Chapman to travel further into the Lhasa valley to take photographs, as he tended to do when he had the opportunity [MS 21/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Sera Monastery from above" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.354.html>.

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