BMR.86.1.19.1 (Album Print black & white)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Hugh E. Richardson
Mid October 1936
Lhasa > City Gate
BMR.86.1.19.1
Riding
Print gelatin silver
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson
C.8.3 [view film roll]
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Notes on print/mount - 'City Gate' has been written beneath the image in the album in pencil, apparently not by Hugh Richardson [MS 12/06/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: '2 officials coming through city gate at far side of city'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 1, From Gangtok to the Natu La August 1936: ‘37/1 - A monk and lay official in Lhasa city’ [MS 12/06/2006]
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside two others on page 19 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 12/06/2006]
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, the Turquoise Bridge, Tsarong, Trimon, views from and of Sera, a woman washing clothes, a shepherd with a sling and football teams. They seem to have been taken October 13th - 20th 1936 [MS 16/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Officials riding through City Gate"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.19.1.html>.
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