Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

July 31st 1936

Named Person

Sir Basil Gould, Frederick Spencer Chapman, Brigadier Neame, Sidney Dagg

Region

Gangtok Region

Accession number

1998.131.392

Image Dimensions

61 x 92

Four members of the British Mission with a syce or groom/attendant and horses. Sir Basil Gould is standing on the left, Chapman is seated upon his horse. This image was probably taken close to Gangtok at the beginning of the Mission's journey to Lhasa

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated 1994

Donated by

Faith Spencer Chapman

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Revised Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

YN.3

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.392

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.396.37.1 2001.35.198.1

Other Information

In Negative - 'YN 3' has been scratched into the bottom left hand corner of the negative [MS 23/03/2006]

Other Information - Dates

Other Information - Dates: This image was probably taken close to Gangtok at the beginning of the Mission's journey to Lhasa. The Mission departed from Gangtok on July 31st 1936 and arrived in Karponang on the same day. The reference number 'YN 3' in the negative indicates that this was only the third image that Nepean had taken of the Mission [MS 23/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "The Mission en route to Lhasa" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.392.html>.

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