1998.131.347 (Print black & white)
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Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
January 1937
Lhasa > Jokhang
1998.131.347
113 x 169
Print gelatin silver
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
7.4 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.347
BMR.86.1.16.2
'Lhasa the Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto and Windus, 1940 [view list of illustrations]
Notes on print/mount - The back of the print is covered with crop and reproduction marks. The reference number '7-4' has been written on the back of the print in pencil [MS 21/03/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Cathedral front'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘12/4 - The Cathedral (Jo Khang) in Lhasa, the holiest building in all Tibet it was built in AD 652’ [MS 21/03/2006]
Exhibition - This image appeared in the 2003 Temporary Exhibition at the Pitt Rivers "Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947"
Research publication - Clare Harris and Tsering Shakya (eds.) 'Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947' Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2003, p. 77
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with '7' comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Potala, yaks and donkeys and the front of the Jokhang. They all seem to have been taken in January 1937 [MS 21/03/2006]
Other Information - Historical Background: The 7th century Jokhang temple is the spiritual centre of Tibet and an important pilgrimage site due to the presence of the Jo Sakyamuni (an image of the Buddha as a child). In this image we also see evidence of the modernisation of Lhasa in the form of street lamps. [CH 2003]
Other Information - Cultural Background: The Jokhang is the spiritual centre of Tibet and an important pilgrimage point. Dates from the 7th Century. [Marina de Alarcón ZF 1995.1]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Jokhang entrance"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.347.html>.
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