Lhasa shopkeeper
BMR.86.1.33.3 (Album Print black & white)
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Key Information
Photographer
Philip Neame
Collection
Hugh E. Richardson
Date of Photo
September 1936
Region
Lhasa
Accession number
BMR.86.1.33.3
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
[PN] W 12 In publication
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [see photos in publication]
[PN] W 12 [view loan photo]
Related Collections
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
This Image also appears in another collection
2006.1.40.12
Other Information
Notes on print/mount - 'Lhasa Woman' has been written under this image in pencil [MS 24/08/2006]
Other Information - Album: The image appears with two other portraits of women on page 33 of the Album [MS 24/08/2006]
Other Information - Dates
Other Information - Dates: This was taken during August - September 1936 when Philip Neame was in Lhasa. He was evidently accompanied by Evan Nepean when this photograph was taken as an almost identical image appears in Nepean's collection [see 2001.35.186.1] [MS 24/08/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Lhasa shopkeeper"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.33.3.html>.
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