Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Date of Photo

November 29th 1936

Named Person

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Region

Lhasa > Kyichu

Accession number

1998.131.708

Image Dimensions

159 x 110 mm

Frederick Spencer Chapman with rolled up trousers standing in by the Kyichu with the Potala in the background. On this day, a Sunday and therefore a day off for the Mission staff, he and a number of others crossed the Kyichu at the ferry crossing to visit a ruined fort some miles out of Lhasa

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

Revised Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

YN.51

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

SC.T.2.708

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.131.708 2001.35.396.39.2 2001.35.210.1

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Frederick Spencer Chapman by Kyichu" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.708.html>.

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