BMR.86.1.13.1 (Album Print black & white)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Hugh E. Richardson
October 27th 1936
Lhasa > Barkhor > Kashag
BMR.86.1.13.1
Print gelatin silver
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson
C.5.4 [view film roll]
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
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'Lhasa the Holy City', F. Spencer Chapman, London: Chatto and Windus, 1940 [view list of illustrations]
Notes on print/mount - 'Lhasa street scene (Cathedral Square S.)' has been written beneath the image in the album in pencil, apparently not by Hugh Richardson [MS 10/06/2006]
Manual Catalogues - Caption in Chapman's hand-written list of negatives made whilst on the Mission to Lhasa, 1936-7 [See PRM Manuscripts Collection]: 'Ditto [View down onto Lhasa city (note p. poles and yaks tail)] looking w. (from same place)'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 1, From Gangtok to the Natu La August 1936: ‘37/3 - View up same street in opposite direction with Potala in distance. On right is Kashag (Cabinet) building. Holy Mountain (18,500) in far distance’ [MS 10/06/2006]
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside two others of central Lhasa on page 13 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 10/06/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: C.5.3 [BMR.86.1.13.3] is taken from the same vantage point, but looking in the opposite direction down the street [MS 10/06/2006]
Other Information - Setting: Mission Diary entry for October 27th 1936: "We all lunched with the Chikyab Khempo, a mild and courteous white haired monk who is the head of the Ecclesiastical party. (A copy of the bill of fare is attached to this diary). // After this party several of us rode down to the bazaar with the ostensible intention of photographing the roofs of Lhasa. Actually our wireless experts wanted to see the Chinese aerial so that they could guess on what wave-length it worked" ['Lhasa Mission, 1936: Diary of Events', Part VIII p.3, written by Chapman] [MS 24/03/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.5.' comprise a group of negatives containing images of Chikyak Khenpo, the house where the Mission met him for lunch, and views of Lhasa city, all of which seem to have been taken on October 27th 1936 [MS 27/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Kashag, Lhasa"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.13.1.html>.
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