Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Hugh E. Richardson

Date of Photo

November 13th - 15th 1936

Region

Lhasa > Potala (from west)

Accession number

BMR.86.1.10.1

The Potala seen from the west across the plain. People walking along a track, some with mules. Large shadow cast in the bottom right hand corner of the image

Further Information

Photographic Process

Print gelatin silver

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson

Previous Catologue Number

C.12.18 [view film roll]

Related Collections

F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum

This Image also appears in another collection

1998.131.292

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Potala from west' has been written beneath the image in the album in pencil, apparently not by Hugh Richardson [MS 10/06/2006]

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]: 'Potala and sand track approaching L. [Lhasa]' [MS 18/03/2006]

Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside three other images of the Potala from various vantage points on page 10 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 10/06/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.12' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Ladakhi men, Ngagchen Rimpoche, Mir/Amir Khan (the mission cook), football match, Dagg, Kham dancers, Nechung, Drepung, Potala and sand track approaching it. They all seem to have been taken between October 28th and November 15th 1936 [MS 18/03/2006]

Other Information - Setting

Other Information - Setting: It is unusual to see the view from this sandy path from where the view is less scenic [TS 7/2/2005]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Potala from the west" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.10.1.html>.

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