Three Monks in Lhasa
BMR.86.1.34.1 (Album Print black & white)
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Key Information
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Collection
Hugh E. Richardson
Date of Photo
October 2nd 1936
Region
Lhasa
Accession number
BMR.86.1.34.1
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.6.8 [view film roll]
Related Collections
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Other Information
Notes on print/mount - 'Nying Pa monks' has been written beneath the image in the album in pencil, apparently not by Hugh Richardson. It also has a pencil-drawn asterisk above it [MS 25/08/2006]
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside 2 others of monks on page 34 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 25/08/2006]
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]: 'Yellow hats 3. full size (bit thin)' [MS 25/08/2006]
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. This image has also been included in a group called 'City and People' in his handlist [MS 18/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Three Monks in Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.34.1.html>.
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