Lonchen Langdun and Basil Gould at Dekyi Lingka

Lonchen Langdun and Basil Gould at Dekyi Lingka

2001.35.338.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

September 29th 936

Named Person

Lonchen Langdun, Sir Basil Gould

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.338.1

Image Dimensions

106 x 73 mm

Basil Gould and the Tibetan Prime Minister, Lonchen Langdun, sitting at a small table with a white tablecloth in the Dekyi Lingka when the Prime Minister came to lunch

Further Information

Activity

Eating and Drinking

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

CV.23 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 - 'B J and Prime Minister; ink no: 15; pencil no: CV/23 ; blue no:'; from an envelope marked 'Personalities' [KC 15/08/2006]

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]: 'The two ‘Lonchens’ on verandah'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 3: ‘27/2 - The Prime Minister come to call on the Political Officer’ [MS 15/08/2006]

Other Information - Related Images


Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CV' comprise a group of negatives containing images of chang girls, dancing girls and band, ‘King’ of Lhadu’s monk, medical work at mission hospital, Gould and Lonchen Langdun, wall painting in Duke’s [Kung] house, Potala from Chakpori, telephoto views of Potala and Gundeling, Gyaltsen, staff of mission. They all seem to have been taken between September 28th - October 1st 1936 [MS 15/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Lonchen Langdun and Basil Gould at Dekyi Lingka" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.338.1.html>.

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