BMR.86.1.21.2 (Album Print black & white)
BMR.86.1.21.2 (Album Print black & white)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Hugh E. Richardson
August 30th 1936
Lhasa Area > Drepung
BMR.86.1.21.2
Print gelatin silver
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson
CM.7 [view film roll]
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Notes on print/mount - 'Drepung' 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]: 'Looking between buildings [Drepung Monastery]'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘19/1 - An alleyway in Drepung monastery’ [MS 12/06/2006]
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside three others of Sera and Drepung Monasteries on page 21 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 12/06/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CM' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Drepung Monastery, shengnoes at Drepung, river behind Dekyi Lingka, Pargo Kaling, Chakpori, Turquoise Bridge, boats, Potala, ‘air views’. They were all taken between August 30th and September 3rd 1936, with images of Drepung being taken on the earlier date on the occasion of the first official Mission visit to Drepung Monastery [MS 12/06/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Drepung Monastery"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.21.2.html>.
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