View of Gyantse from near Cholung Ritro

View of Gyantse from near Cholung Ritro

BMH.A.17.1 (Film negative)

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Key Information

Photographer

Arthur Hopkinson

Collection

A. J. Hopkinson

Date of Photo

January 15th 1927

Region

Gyantse (view from Cholung Ritro)

Accession number

BMH.A.17.1

Image Dimensions

85 x 112 mm

The view from Cholung Ritro of Gyantse and its environs. Cholung is located on a mountainside to the north east of Gyantse and Hopkinson visited there in January 1927, shortly after arriving in the town as Trade Agent, to ask permission to transplant some of the wild roses that grew there in the spring [A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/53, Letters mainly from Gyantse 1926-27, Diary January 16th dated Gyantse 21 Jan 1927, 1927, page A-C]. A corner of the hermitage can be seen on the right hand side of the image

Further Information

Photographic Process

Negative film nitrate

Expedition

A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse, 1927-28

Other Information

In Negative - 'A17' has been written on the top edge of the negative in black ink. The negative has been machine perforated along the top edge. 18 holes have been perforated in total although some have been cropped. There are a further six perforations along the bottom edge, possibly made by pins rather than a machine. These have been marked with a pen and what appears to be '171' has been written twice adjacent to these perforations in large figures on the reverse of the negative [MS 05/05/2006]

Manual Catalogues -


Manual Catalogues - [Caption in A. J. Hopkinson's negative album 'Tibet A - A. J. Hopkinson ICS Gyantse via Siliguri]: 'Ditto [Cholung Monastery nr. Gyantse] View of Gyantse from' [MS 28/04/2006]

Other Information - Dates


Other Information - Dates: For dating of image, see A. J. Hopkinson Archive, OIOC British Library, Mss Eur D998/53, Letters mainly from Gyantse 1926-27, Diary January 16th dated Gyantse 21 Jan 1927, pages A-C [MS 24/06/2006]

For Citation use:
The Tibet Album. "View of Gyantse from near Cholung Ritro" 05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum. <http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMH.A.17.1.html>.

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