Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012660Untitled (Hong Kong, St. John’s Cathedral, from the Parade Ground, H.M. Regiment on Parade)
About the Artwork
Since the customers for landscape photographs were mostly Westerners, most Chinese studios focused on portraiture. Lai Fong, however, offered views of China, which set him in competition with European photographers who had monopolized that market. Here, soldiers from the Queen’s Regiment march on the Parade Ground, which sits below the Anglican St. John’s Cathedral. The picture presents two major organs of social control used by the British Empire in its colonies: the church and the military.
Provenance
Alexander Young Herries [1827-1918] ?-2020: (Pump Park Vintage Photography, Co. Down, Ireland) September 14, 2020: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Lai Fong (Afong Studio) (Chinese, c. 1839–1890)
- Date
- 1866–73
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.1 x 26.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 26.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Mounted: 26 x 33.3 cm (10 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Photography Fund
- Accession no.
- 2020.234
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