Key Information

Photographer

Evan Yorke Nepean

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

November 22nd 1936

Named Person

Frederick Spencer Chapman, Sir Basil Gould

Region

Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka

Accession number

2001.35.256.1

Image Dimensions

90 x 58 mm

Frederick Spencer Chapman takes photographs of some of the staff on the British Mission to Lhasa in 1936 as they prepare to go to the Potala in November 1936. Sir Basil Gould can be seen ion the right, with his arm raised apparently trying to assist the photographic exercise

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "F. S. Chapman photographs mission staff" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.256.1.html>.

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