Fresco in Sera Monastery
1998.131.361 (Print black & white)
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Key Information
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Collection
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Date of Photo
October 18th 1936
Region
Lhasa Area > Sera
Accession number
1998.131.361
Image Dimensions
120 x 163 mm
Further Information
Photographic Process
Print gelatin silver
Date Acquired
Donated 1994
Donated by
Faith Spencer Chapman
Expedition
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Photo also owned by
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Previous Catologue Number
C.8.21 [view film roll]
Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number
SC.T.2.361
Other Information
Notes on print/mount - The reference 'C-8/21' has been written on the back of the print in pencil [MS 21/03/2006]
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - 'Painting on Sera temple porch' [MS 21/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.8' comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Potala and Lhasa, officials coming through Pargo Kaling, the Turquoise Bridge, Tsarong, Trimon, views from and of Sera, a woman washing clothes, a shepherd with a sling and football teams. They seem to have been taken October 13th - 20th 1936 [MS 16/03/2006]
Other Information - Description: " ... magnificent frescoes on the outer walls of the temples, and hanging 'tankas' within, more beautiful and richer in colour than any we have seen elsewhere. These depicted conventional subjects such as the Wheel of Life, a superb blazing god of wrath ten feet high surrounded by a thousand lesser deities, and a line of seated Buddhas, each with a different expression" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part VIII p. 2, written by Chapman] [MS 21/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Fresco in Sera Monastery"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.361.html>.
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