Norbu Lingka doorknob
BMR.86.1.46.2 (Album Print black & white)
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Key Information
Photographer
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Collection
Hugh E. Richardson
Date of Photo
September 16th 1936?
Region
Lhasa > Norbu Lingka
Accession number
BMR.86.1.46.2
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
CT.3 [view film roll]
Related Collections
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
Other Information
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside 2 others of various forms of carved lions on on page 46 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]: 'Door handle ditto [of Norbu Lingka gate]'; [MS 25/08/2006]
Other Information - Related Images
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'CT' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Basil Gould, carving on Norbu Lingka gate, bar-headed geese and ducks on Norbu Lingka pond, Potala and Chakpori, camels, Dr Morgan and mission hospital, views of sitting room in Dekyi Lingka. They seem to have been taken on or around September 16th 1936 [MS 10/04/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Norbu Lingka doorknob"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.46.2.html>.
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