1998.131.711 (Film negative)
Evan Yorke Nepean
Frederick Spencer Chapman
August 2nd-3rd 1936
Chumbi Valley Region > Yatung > British Trade Agent's House
1998.131.711
60 x 90
Negative film nitrate
Donated 1994
Faith Spencer Chapman
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Frederick Spencer Chapman
YN.15
SC.T.2.105neg
2001.35.396.6.1 2001.35.14.1
In Negative - 'YN 15' has been scratched into the negative in the bottom left hand corner. This enables the photographer to be identified as Evan Nepean [MS 08/04/2006]
Other Information - Setting: "[We] walked up to the Agency, which overlooks the village - a lovely long low-roofed bungalow with a glass verandah in front. It possesses a most heavenly garden: the drive bordered by riotous masses of nasturtiums, green lawns, a pergolah of rambling roses in full bloom, a paved garden with huge pansies, lupins, ... all you could wish for. I should have liked to live there. ... The rest house is very comfortable and lies on the other side of the river. On this side are the village, the barracks, the Agency, the Post Office" ['Lhasa: The Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto & Windus, 1938, p.28]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"British Trade Agent's House, Yatung"
05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_1998.131.711.html>.
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