Key Information

Photographer

Hugh E. Richardson

Collection

Hugh Richardson

Date of Photo

1936-50

Region

Gyantse > British Trade Agency

Accession number

2001.59.3.10.1

Image Dimensions

85 X 56 mm

Postal horses crossing river near the British Trade Agency, Gyantse.

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Date Acquired

Donated August 2001

Donated by

The executors of the estate of Hugh E. Richardson

Expedition

Hugh E. Richardson

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative album - '3' 'MUG, LHOBRAG GORGE. GYANTSE. KHAMPA DANCERS. CHIPSHA MEN, CHOPA, APSOS, DREPUNG. NORBULING. DEKYI. POTALA'

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Notes on negative index - 'Our Dak (mail service) at Gyantse bridge'

Manual Catalogues -

Manual Catalogues - Richardson's Hand List: 'Album no.3 [no.] 10. "British run Gyantse/ Gyantok [sic.] mail service, crossing river near Trade Agency, Gyantse; bridge near site of 1904 expedition headquarters". [KC 02/10/2006]

Other Information - Background: Richardson mentions this site in High Peaks, Pure Earth , London: Serindia Publications, 1998, p. 325, " ... the thriving town of Gyantse (Rgyal-rtse) (1936-50), well-placed for trade with both Shigatse (Gzhis-ka-rtse) and Lhasa and on the route to India. It is rich in art and architecture of the fifteenth century created by the Gtsang prince,Rab-brtan kun-bzang 'phags-pa. He enlarged and embellished the temple founded by his father near the rdzong which crowns the summit of the great rock overhanging the town. But his greatest achievements were the enlargement or virtual reconstruction of the Dpal-'khor Chos-sde temple and the building of the magnificent Sku-'bum mchod-rten (1936-50). The former is the heart of a community of monastic college residences spread over an extensive hillside enclosed by a fortified wall. Although the Sa-skya-pa scholl originally predominated, all other religious schools were represented here." [KC 02/10/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Postal horses near British Trade Agency, Gyantse" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.59.3.10.1.html>.

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