Norbu Lingka

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2001.35.333.1. (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September 6th 1936

Region

Lhasa > Norbu Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.333.1.

Image Dimensions

82 x 106 mm

The main building at the Norbu Lingka summer residence of the Dalai Lama

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

CC.28 [view film roll]

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Summer palace, Dekyilingka; ink no: 115; pencil no: CC/28; blue no: 39'; 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]: 'Big Palace [ Norbu Lingka] monk on path' [MS 14/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CC' taken on the British Mission to Lhasa in 1936-37 comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Nepalese guard at Gyantse fort, Tsarong’s house, part of Potala and flooded plain of Lhasa, the aqueduct, ‘Lake’ palace and causeway, lake at Norbu Lingka and birds on lake. They seem to have been taken between September 2nd - 6th 1936 [MS 14/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Norbu Lingka" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.333.1..html>.

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