Information
Studio portrait of the 13th Dalai Lama seated in a dark wood European-style armchair with his right arm resting on a side table covered with a paisley shawl on top of which are two vases of flowers. The photograph was taken during the Dalai Lama's stay at Hasting House, Calcutta. He travelled there to meet the Viceroy of India, Lord Minto.
Specifications
- Accession number
- 1967.183.2
- Collection type
- Photography
- Culture
- Tibetan
- Artist
- Johnston and Hoffman
- Place made
- Asia: Southern Asia: India: West Bengal: Kolkata
- Date made
- 1910-03-16
- Collector
- Alexei Bobrinskoy
- Place collected
- Asia: Southern Asia: India
- Date collected
- 1920
- Materials
- Paper Plant; Paper Cardboard
- Note
- Credit line
- Purchased From Count Bobrinskoy, 1967
- Legal status
- Permanent collection
- Location
- Item not currently on display
- Other people
- Publications