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...
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...
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
[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