拍品專文
Six views around Kamba Jong including a six-part panoramic view showing the camp, Chongu, Phema, Samuda, Kangma, three glacier views at Nishi Kang Sang, a view of Mount Everest from Khamba Jong, panoramic views of Pethe Jong, the Tsang Po Valley and Lhassa, three views of the Iron Bridge at Chaksam, the road along Kyi Chu, river views along the Teesta and the Amochu from Rinchingong; several architectural studies at Khamba Jong, Phari Jong, Gyamtze Jong, Samding Monastery, six of the Nachung Monastery, nine images of the Potola, three of the Sera Monastery; the Rock carved with Buddhas, Llassa, including a street scene looking toward Jo Khang; portraits of Tibetan Nuns, Chutens, Llamas in Sera Monastery, monks on the terrace of Debung Monastery, Ti Rimpochi, the Ambam on horseback, 'Shapes (the council of four)', 'the Tongsa Penlop', the Nepalese representative, two portraits of prisoners and a portrait of a guard at the Mission Post at Gyantze.
White took the photographs in this album during the last 'Tibet Mission', a punitive move by the British to force the Tibetans to co-operate on a mapping survey.
The majority of images in this album are the same as those in the two volume publication Tibet and Lhasa by Johnston and Hoffmann, Calcutta, 1907-08. This album has titles in ink on mounts where the published volumes have letterpress descriptions by C.B. Baylay on interfacing pages (see Sotheby's New York, 10 and 11 May, 1983, lot 531). A single volume titled Tibet with 72 plates sold at Sotheby's London 13 May, lot 20. It would appear that some variation of plates occured even where volumes were issued with the same total number of photographs.
White took the photographs in this album during the last 'Tibet Mission', a punitive move by the British to force the Tibetans to co-operate on a mapping survey.
The majority of images in this album are the same as those in the two volume publication Tibet and Lhasa by Johnston and Hoffmann, Calcutta, 1907-08. This album has titles in ink on mounts where the published volumes have letterpress descriptions by C.B. Baylay on interfacing pages (see Sotheby's New York, 10 and 11 May, 1983, lot 531). A single volume titled Tibet with 72 plates sold at Sotheby's London 13 May, lot 20. It would appear that some variation of plates occured even where volumes were issued with the same total number of photographs.