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Untitled (View on the Praya, looking east, Hong Kong)
About the Artwork
Floyd’s views of Hong Kong possess a clarity of organization and elegance lacking in most of his competitors’ photographs. The row of white, Western-style commercial buildings divides the composition horizontally into thirds. In the foreground are water and a single Chinese boat that leads the eye to the closest building. The crisp cubic forms of the buildings stand out against the uniformly dark hillside that serves as their backdrop.
Provenance
Alexander Young Herries [1827-1918] ?-2020: (Pump Park Vintage Photography, Co. Down, Ireland) September 14, 2020: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- William Pryor Floyd (British, 1834–c. 1900)
- Date
- 1866–73
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.2 x 26.9 cm (7 9/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Paper: 19.2 x 26.9 cm (7 9/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Mounted: 25.5 x 26.9 cm (10 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Photography Fund
- Accession no.
- 2020.233
More by William Pryor Floyd in museum collections
Untitled (General view of Hong Kong from the Scandal Point looking west)
William Pryor Floyd1866–73 · Photograph
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012837
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