Boat on Norbu Lingka lake

Boat on Norbu Lingka lake

2001.35.316.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September 16th 1936

Region

Lhasa > Norbu Lingka > Lukhang

Accession number

2001.35.316.1

Image Dimensions

107 x 83 mm

A flat-bottomed wooden boat on the Serpent Temple lake or Lukhang in the Norbu being propelled by an oarsman. The causeway leading to the snake temple can be seen in the background

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

CL.21 In publication
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [see photos in publication]

Published

'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [view list of illustrations]

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Ferry, Lhasa; ink no: 78; pencil no: CL/21; blue no: 44'; from an envelope marked 'Scenes around Lhasa and the Norbhu Lingka = Jewel Park, the summer palace' [KC 14/08/2006]

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]: 'Dalai Lama’s ‘barge’ on lake [Norbu Lingka]' [MS 14/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CL' comprise a group of negatives containing images of wooden pillar, tea pots, Tibetan mastiff, frescoes at a house, lions at lake palace, frescoes in Norbu Lingka stables. They seem to have been taken on September 16th 1936 [MS 14/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Boat on Norbu Lingka lake" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.316.1.html>.

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