Regent's favourite
2001.35.348.1 (Print Black & White)
Key Information
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Collection
Evan Yorke Nepean
Date of Photo
October 1st 1936?
Region
Lhasa > Dekyi Lingka
Accession number
2001.35.348.1
Image Dimensions
81 x 105 mm
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
C.6.6 [view film roll]
Other Information
Notes on print/mount - 'Regent's favourite; ink no: 46; pencil no: C-6/6 ; blue no:'. [KC 05/08/2006]
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Regent’s favourite'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘36/3 - a junior secretary with wide red hat and pen case in his belt’ [MS 05/08/2006]
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.6' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Trimon and 4th/5th rank officials, Amir Khan and staff, Ringang, lunch party, Yellow Hat Monks, Potala views, Norbhu Lingka stables. They all seem to have been taken between October 1st - 3rd 1936 [MS 30/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: See 2001.35.177.1-2 & 2001.35.396.177 for images taken by Nepean at the same time [MS 05/08/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Regent's favourite"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.348.1.html>.
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