Key Information

Photographer

Sir Charles Bell or Rabden Lepcha?

Collection

Sir Charles Bell

Date of Photo

1920-1921

Region

Lhasa > Potala (from south east)

Accession number

1998.285.308.1

Image Dimensions

120 x 163 mm

View from the Lhasa Arsenal. Potala on the right, Chakpori in distance on left . In foreground flooded ground.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative glass plate gelatin , Negative Half Plate

Date Acquired

Donated 1983

Donated by

St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copy difference

Lantern Copy Neg

Expedition

Sir Charles Bell's Mission to Lhasa 1920-21

Photo also owned by

Royal Central Asiatic Society

Previous Catologue Number

H. 280

Previous Pitt Rivers Museum Number

BL.H.280

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.285.78

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Bell's List of Illustrations entry: "[No. of chapter] L. [Subject of Chapter] Lhasa [Subject of Illustration] H.280 (bq) Potala and the Iron Hill (Chakpori) from the Arsenal in Lhasa. [Remarks] L.255"

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: This image is a re-photograph of 1998.285.78 [MS 10/6/2004]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "View from Lhasa Arsenal" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.285.308.1.html>.

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