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[Photo.86/2(025)] Professor Guiseppe Tucci, his wife, and the Italian Secretary, Gyantse 1939 


A photograph of Professor Guiseppe Tucci, Scholar of East Asian studies specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism, his wife, Signora Julia Tucci, and a third person, Captain —, the Italian Secretary, taken in Gyantse in 1939.

Part of a collection of 81 loose black and white photographs taken by Fleming Mackenzie while serving in Tibet in 1938-1939. From the Collections of Lieut.-Col. Fleming Mackenzie, donated by his daughter Mrs Ann O’Neill in 2022.