Mission members on a picnic with Tsarong

Mission members on a picnic with Tsarong

2001.35.309.1 (Print Black & White)

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Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

October 6th 1936

Named Person

Evan Nepean, Frederick Spencer Chapman, Hugh Richardson, Tsarong Dzasa, Norbhu Dhondup

Region

Lhasa Area

Accession number

2001.35.309.1

Image Dimensions

107 x 70 mm

Nepean, Spencer Chapman, Richardson, Tsarong and Norbhu having a picnic with Sikkimese orderlies standing behind; camera tripod on right.

Further Information

Activity

Eating and Drinking

Photographic Process

Print silver

Date Acquired

Loaned August 2002

Donated by

Judy Goldthorp

Expedition

British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37

Photo also owned by

Lady Nepean

Previous Catologue Number

C.16.6 In publication
'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [see photos in publication]

Published

'Lhasa Mission 1936, Diary of Events', P. Neame, H. Richardson, F. S. Chapman, Government of India Political Department [Note: photographs for October 18th - November 4th 1936 are not included as their relationship to text is not detailed; see Mission Diary text for details of images] [view list of illustrations]

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Picnic: Norbhu, Nepean, Chapman, Richardson, Tsarong; ink no: 129; pencil no: C.16/6; blue no: '; from an envelope marked 'Scenes during journeys around Lhasa'. [KC 14/08/2006]

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]: 'Our picnic'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 3: ‘24/3 - Picnic at Lhasa (L to R) Norbhu, Nepean, F. Spencer Chapman, Richardson, Tsarong’ [MS 14/08/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: See Mission Diary for October 6th 1936 in which it states that following the Regent's departure, Nepean, Richardson, Norbhu and Chapman had a picnic breakfast by the river at which they were joined by Tsarong Shape [MS 14/08/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Mission members on a picnic with Tsarong" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.309.1.html>.

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