BMR.86.1.37.3 (Album Print black & white)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Hugh E. Richardson
September 3rd 1936
Lhasa > Barkhor
BMR.86.1.37.3
Print gelatin silver
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson
CS.28 [view film roll]
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside 3 others on page 37 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [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]: 'Man writing book in ‘bookshop’ '; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 4: ‘11/3 - In Lhasa bazaar, writing prayer flags for sale’ [MS 25/08/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CS' comprise a group of negatives containing images of patients at Dr Morgan’s Mission hospital, Mir Khan [Mission cook], curio sellers, bookshops, street scenes, the Jokhang, willow trees and Chapman. They all seem to have been taken on September 3rd 1936 [MS 18/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Making prayer flags for sale"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.37.3.html>.
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