BMR.86.1.5.2 (Album Print black & white)
Frederick Spencer Chapman
Hugh E. Richardson
October 14th-17th 1936
Lhasa Area > Taktsang Hermitage
BMR.86.1.5.2
Print gelatin silver
British Diplomatic Mission to Lhasa 1936-37
Donated to the British Museum in 1986 by Hugh E. Richardson
C.8.14 [view film roll]
F. S. Chapman Collection in the Pitt Rivers Museum
1998.131.350.1
Notes on print/mount - 'Kyesong Rito' 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]: 'Monastery above Sera (vertical) and hill (best)'; PRM Manuscripts Collection: ‘List of Tibetan Prints and Negatives’ - Book 2: ‘15/1 - A mountain monastery near Lhasa’ [MS 21/03/2006]
Other Information - Album: This image appears alongside one other image of Sera monastery on page 5 of Hugh Richardson's album 'Lhasa 1936' [MS 10/06/2006]
Other Information - Related Images: Images prefixed with 'C.8' comprise a group of negatives containing images of the Potala and Lhasa, officials coming through Pargo Kaling, Turquoise Bridge, Tsarong, Trimon, views from and of Sera, a woman washing clothes, shepherd with sling, football teams. They were possibly taken between October 13th - 20th 1036. This image may have been taken between October 14th - 17th 1936, as on these days there were no official engagements according to the official mission diary, which might have enabled Chapman to travel further into the Lhasa valley to take photographs, as he tended to do when he had the opportunity [MS 21/03/2006]
For Citation use:
The Tibet Album.
"Taktsang Hermitage"
05 Dec. 2006. The British Museum.
<http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/photo_BMR.86.1.5.2.html>.
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