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Monumental Lhasa: Fortress, Palace, Temple

Tashilhunpo Monastery
Painted by a Tibetan monk;
commissioned by Major William Edmund Hay (1805-1879)
Lahaul, present-day India; ca. 1857
Watercolor on paper

The British Library
Wise Collection, Add.Or.3016, Folio 2
Photograph © The British Library Board