View south from Gyantse Fort
BMH.F.44.1 (Film negative)
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Key Information
Photographer
Arthur Hopkinson
Collection
A. J. Hopkinson
Date of Photo
January 24th 1928?
Region
Gyantse > Fort >
Accession number
BMH.F.44.1
Image Dimensions
85 x 113
Further Information
Photographic Process
Negative film nitrate
Expedition
A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28
Other Information
Notes on print/mount - One contact print made from this negative is contained in A. J. Hopkinson's negative case with the negative. The print was made using Velox paper. 'F.44' has been written on the back of the print in pencil, as well as in the top right corner on the front of the negative [MS 11/08/2006]
Manual Catalogues -
Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet F']: 'Looking S. [south] from fort - clouds' [MS 05/05/2006]
Other Information - Description: [Extract from taped interview, Richard Blurton and Mrs Hopkinson] '44 - again, view from the roof of the fort at Gyantse, looking north in the rainy season' [MS 10/08/2006]
Other Information - Dates
Other Information - Dates: This photograph may have been taken on January 24th 1928. On this day in his journal A. J. Hopkinson commented that “I got up at about 6.30 am meaning to go up the highest mountain overlooking Gyantse to photograph, but by 7 am the whole sky was overcast with clouds” [A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/54, Journal Letters from Gyantse and Various Camps, 1927-28, commencing January 25th 1928, Gyantse, page 2]. This dating would also follow the sequence of images that appears to exist in his negative album 'F' [MS 12/08/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"View south from Gyantse Fort"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.F.44.1.html>.
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