BMR.86.1.45.1 (Album Print black & white)
BMR.86.1.45.1 (Album Print black & white)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Hugh E. Richardson
August 30th 1936
Lhasa Area > Drepung
BMR.86.1.45.1
Print gelatin silver
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson
CM.10 [view film roll]
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside 3 others of religious images on page 45 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 25/08/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'A Buddha [Drepung] monastery'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘20/3 - Detail of giant Buddha’ [MS 25/08/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CM' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Drepung Monastery, river behind Dekyi Lingka, Pargo Kaling, Chakpori, Turquoise Bridge, boats, Potala, ‘air views’, all apparently taken between August 30th and September 3rd 1936 [MS 10/04/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Buddha Image in Drepung Monastery"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.45.1.html>.
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