Lhasa, Tibet: principal buildings, monasteries, temples, palaces and gardens. Gouache painting by Pa-dma Ri-mo-mkhan, 1890.
- Pa-dma Ri-mo-mkhan.
- Date:
- [1890]
- Reference:
- 580102i
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"Lhasa and its main temple, the Jo-khan: a "picture-plan" drawn for Lt. Col. L.A. Waddell by the lama artist Pa-dma Ri-mo-mkhan, i.e. 'Padma the Painter' in 1890, from special sketches made on the spot and giving accurate details of the principal buildings, monasteries, temples, palaces and gardens. Each building was painted separately and then pasted onto the whole picture in the right place"--Winder, loc. cit.
Publication/Creation
[Tibet], [1890]
Physical description
1 painting : gouache, with watercolour, gold foil and collage ; sheet 57 x 70 cm
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References note
Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989, p. 71, thankas banners and paintings no. 57
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Wellcome Collection 580102i
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