View over rock carved with Buddhist figures
Photograph
1903-1904 (photographed)
1903-1904 (photographed)
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Broad landscape with river and distant mountains. In the foreground streamers of flags extend over the river from a rock-face at the right.
Object details
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| Title | View over rock carved with Buddhist figures (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Photographic paper: platinum process |
| Brief description | One of a series of fourteen platinotype photographs of Tibet in 1903-04 by John Claude White |
| Physical description | Broad landscape with river and distant mountains. In the foreground streamers of flags extend over the river from a rock-face at the right. |
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| Production type | Unlimited edition |
| Credit line | Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Michael McDaniel |
| Production | Reason For Production: Private |
| Bibliographic reference | Clarke, John, Tibet: Caught in Time (London: Garnet Publishing in association with The British Library, 1997), p.129, fig.136, shows a close-up view of the scene photographed by White in E.862-2000. Clarke's caption identifies the subject: 'A section of the Lingkor or outer pilgrim route that encompassed Lhasa in a five-mile circuit. If pilgrims had come from far it was common to make the entire circuit by prostration, measuring their length on the ground. This normally took three days, but the particularly devout made each prostration keeping the Potala on their right. Circumambulation must always be carried out in a clockwise direction around a sacred structure, which is thereby kept on one's right. Here the Lingkor, skirting the Iron Hill, descended so steeply that prostration became difficult'. |
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| Accession number | E.862-2000 |
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| Record created | August 25, 2000 |
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