1998.131.519.1 (Contact Print)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
January 27th 1937
Lhasa > Shide Drokhang
1998.131.519.1
59 x 89
Print gelatin silver
Donated 1994
Mrs Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
2.15 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.519
1998.131.518 .1 1998.131.518.2
Notes on print/mount - This contact print has been made using Velox paper and the trade name in an oval can be seen on the back of the print. 'F. S. Chapman' has been written on the lower edge of the back of the print in pencil, as has the number '18' in a circle [MS 01/04/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Regent close-up'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘27/1 - The young Regent of Tibet’ [MS 01/04/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: This image is the original from which 1998.131.518.1&2 have been made. These latter prints identify the image as being '2.15' in Chapman's handlist and other data related to this is derived from this attribution [MS 01/04/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with '2' comprise a group of negatives including Kampa people, Kinchung, a shuttle cock game and images of the Regent’s palace. They seem all to have been taken between January 15th - 27th 1937, with photographs of the Regent being taken on January 27th when the Mission was invited to put on another performance of their cine film for the Regent in Shide Drokhang [MS 01/04/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Reting Rinpoche"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.519.1.html>.
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