1998.131.350.1 (Print black & white)
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With tracing paper
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Frederick Spencer Chapman
October 14th-17th 1936
Lhasa Area > Taktsang
1998.131.350.1
228 x 170
Print gelatin silver
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
C.8.14 [view film roll]
SC.T.2.350
BMR.86.1.5.2
'Lhasa the Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto and Windus, 1940 [view list of illustrations]
Notes on print/mount - The back of this print is covered with crop and reproduction marks. The caption 'Monastery to the N. of Lhasa' has been written on the back in pencil', as has a Chatto & Windus [publisher's] reference number 'C&W41074/18'. The reference 'C-8-14' has also been written across the back 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]: 'Monastery above Sera (vertical) and hill (best)'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘15/1 - A mountain monastery near Lhasa’ [MS 21/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.8' comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Potala and Lhasa, officials coming through Pargo Kaling, Turquoise Bridge, Tsarong, Trimon, views from and of Sera, a woman washing clothes, shepherd with sling, football teams. They were possibly taken between October 13th - 20th 1036. This image may have been taken between October 14th - 17th 1936, as on these days there were no official engagements according to the official mission diary, which might have enabled Chapman to travel further into the Lhasa valley to take photographs, as he tended to do when he had the opportunity [MS 21/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Taktsang Monastery"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.350.1.html>.
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