BMR.86.1.34.3 (Album Print black & white)
BMR.86.1.34.3 (Album Print black & white)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Hugh E. Richardson
September 8th 1936
Lhasa Area > Sera
BMR.86.1.34.3
Print gelatin silver
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson
C.4.21 [view film roll]
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Notes on print/mount - No caption has been written beneath the image but it has been annotated with a pencil-drawn asterisk
[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]: 'V small monk and 2 others moved [Sera] '; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘24/3 - A small boy monk at Drepung monastery’ [NB: This image was actually taken at Sera] [MS 25/08/2006]
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside 2 others of monks on page 34 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 25/08/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Same person as in 1998.131.203. Images prefixed with 'C.4.' seem all to have been taken during September and early October 1936 and comprise a group of negatives containing images of soldiers, turning prayer wheel, horns and rock paintings, paintings, Dr Morgan and mission hospital, beggar with skull and drum, monks outside Sera, a meat seller, and water tanks [MS 13/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Boy novice monk"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.34.3.html>.
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