Ragashar mansion, Lhasa
1998.285.116 (Glass negative)
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Key Information
Photographer
Rabden Lepcha?
Collection
Sir Charles Bell
Date of Photo
April 17th 1921?
Region
Lhasa > Ragashar House
Accession number
1998.285.116
Image Dimensions
120 x 163 mm
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate
Date Acquired
Donated 1983
Donated by
St Antony's College, Oxford.
Expedition
Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21
Photo also owned by
Royal Central Asiatic Society
Previous Catologue Number
See H.103
Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number
BL.H.103a
This Image also appears in another collection
1998.285.117
Other Information
Bell's List of Illustrations entry for H.103: "[No. of chapter] XVI. [Subject of Chapter] The Aristocracy. [Subject of Illustration] H103 (m) Rakashar mansion in Lhasa"
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: Bell does not distinguish in his List of Illustrations between H103a and H103b [1998.285.116 and 1998.285.117]. However, 1998.285.117 appears to be a re-photograph of a print from 1998.285.116, zooming in and cropping the image to enhance the centrality of the architectural feature of the entrance gate to the mansion and its verandah above, cropping some of the peripheral windows and animals. 1998.285.117 has a slightly more grainy texture [MS 18/5/2004]
Other Information - Setting
Other Information - Setting: Bell went on a short tour north of Lhasa at the beginning of April 1921. In his diary for 17th April he states:"On the way [back to Lhasa] a servant of Rakashar met us with an invitation to his house, 8 miles or so out of Lhasa. We spent a very pleasant hour conversing with the head of the family, a Depon recently returned from Eastern Tibet. Poor man, though only 35 years old (Tibetan reckoning), he is crippled with gout." [Vol. X, p.22]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Ragashar mansion, Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.116.html>.
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