Key Information

Photographer

Frederick Spencer Chapman

Collection

Evan Yorke Nepean

Date of Photo

October 1936?

Region

Lhasa > Norbu Lingka > Pavilion

Accession number

2001.35.323.1

Image Dimensions

104 x 80 mm

Pavilion in the Norbhu Lingka with prayer flags suspended from the trees taken from the lake.

Further Information

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.6.13 [view film roll]

This Image also appears in another collection

BMR.86.1.6.1

Other Information

Notes on print/mount - 'Pavilion in Lhasa; ink no: 94; pencil no: C-6/13.' [KC 05/08/2006]

Other Information - from an envelope marked 'Scenes around Lhasa and the Norbhu Lingka = Jewel Park, the summer palace'.[KC 05/08/2006]

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]: 'Norbu Lingka lake pagoda’; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘7/4 - Lake and pavilion in Norbhu Lingka’ [MS 10/04/2006]

Other Information - Related Images

Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.6' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Trimon and 4th/5th rank officials, Amir Khan and staff, Ringang, lunch party, Yellow Hat Monks, Potala views, Norbhu Lingka stables. They all seem to have been taken between October 1st - 3rd 1936 [MS 30/03/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "Pavilion in grounds of Norbu Lingka" 05 Dec. 2006. The Pitt Rivers Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_2001.35.323.1.html>.

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