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Language Not applicable Name Spencer-Chapman, Frederick, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1907-1971

271. Photo 1043(272)

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Photo 1043(272)
Title:
Drepung Monastery. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from hillside looking down onto monastery buildings. 'Chapman climbed three thousand feet up the mountain overlooking Drepung in order to photograph a bird's eye view of this immense monastery, and to collect seeds of certain rare gentians and primulas which we...
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Visual Arts
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Unspecified
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1 item

272. Photo 1043(273)

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Photo 1043(273)
Title:
The Potala [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view from below of the southern face of the Potala. 'As Gould was ill, and Nepean and Dagg had not yet reached Lhasa, when we first visited the Potala, we arranged another visit for today. The Potala defies description. The strong individuality of its star...
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
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1 item

273. Photo 1043(274)

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Photo 1043(274)
Title:
The Potala [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view from the south-west. [Gelatin silver print, 159x106mm]. Subjects = palaces; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
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Visual Arts
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Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

274. Photo 1043(275)

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Photo 1043(275)
Title:
Golden shrines on roof of Potala [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography [Gelatin silver print, 160x102mm]. Subjects = palaces; shrines; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

275. Photo 1043(276)

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Photo 1043(276)
Title:
The Potala. The middle stair (barred) is used only by the Dalai Lama himself. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of entrance to Potala. [Gelatin silver print, 102x160mm]. Subjects = palaces; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

276. Photo 1043(277)

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Photo 1043(277)
Title:
[Upper storey of the Potala, Lhasa.] Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography [Gelatin silver print, 159x103mm]. Subjects = palaces; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

277. Photo 1043(278)

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Photo 1043(278)
Title:
View from Potala roof to courtyard [Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking down onto the roofs of the buildings in the enclosure at the foot of the southern face of the Potala. [Gelatin silver print, 159x104mm]. Subjects = palaces; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Not applicable
Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

278. Photo 1043(279)

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Photo 1043(279)
Title:
[Road leading up to the Potala, Lhasa.] Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking up paved pathway and along the southern face of the Potala. [Gelatin silver print, 104x158mm]. Subjects = palaces; Tibetan architecture Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

279. Photo 1043(280)

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Photo 1043(280)
Title:
Silver butter-lamps [Dalai Lama's shrine in the Potala, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography Butter lamps in the shrine to the Dalai Lama. [Gelatin silver print, 158x107mm]. Subjects = butter lamps; furniture and furnishings; interiors; palaces; Tibetan architecture; tombs Location = Lhasa; Tibet
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
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Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item

280. Photo 1043(281)

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Photo 1043(281)
Title:
Front of Dalai Lama's tomb with present of cloisonné and gold vases [Potala, Lhasa]. Photographer: Spencer-Chapman, Frederick
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Genre: Architectural Photography '...Up dark, slippery staircases eventually to reach the lavishly bejewelled shrine of the last and greatest Dalai Lama...' (Lhasa Mission Diary, 22 November 1936). [Gelatin silver print, 158x108mm]. Subjects = furniture and furnishings; interiors; palaces; T...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
22 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 item