Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

November 29th 1936

Named Person

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Region

Lhasa > Kyichu

Accession number

2001.35.210.1

Image Dimensions

58 x 90 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. This photograph is paired with that of a similar image taken by Chapman of Evan Nepean [2001.35.211.1]

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

YN.51

This Image also appears in another collection

2001.35.396.39.2 1998.131.399 1998.131.708

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Caption for this image in Nepean's album (see Same Image As) - ' F. Chapman [been swimming, Potala behind]' [MS 01/08/2006]

Exhibition - This image appeared in the 2003 Temporary Exhibition at the Pitt Rivers "Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947"

Research publication - Clare Harris and Tsering Shakya (eds.), 'Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947', Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003, p.24.

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: The negative for this image is in the Frederick Spencer Chapman collection at the PRM [1998.131.399]. 'YN 51' has been scratched into the bottom left hand corner of the negative [MS 22/03/2006]

Other Information - Cultural Background

Other Information - Cultural Background: Frederick Spencer Chapman standing in the Kyi Chu river with the Potala Palace in the background. This is one of the least formal shots taken during the 1936 British Mission to Lhasa. Taking a break from their duties, Spencer Chapman and Evan Nepean went swimming in the Kyi Chu river (which flows along the outskirts of Lhasa). They then photographed one another on the river bank with their shirts off. Spencer Chapman often walked in the countryside around Lhasa bird-spotting, collecting botanical specimens and taking photographs [CH 2003]

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_2001.35.210.1.html>.

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