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Aug 13, 2020
Aug 13, 2020

Untitled (Happy Valley Cemetery, Hong Kong)

Untitled (Happy Valley Cemetery, Hong Kong)

1866–73

William Pryor Floyd

(British, 1834–c. 1900)

England, 19th century

Albumen print

Image: 20.2 x 27.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 27.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Mounted: 25.5 x 33.3 cm (10 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.)

Sundry Art - Photography Fund 2020.232

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Floyd left his home in Cornwall, England, at age 17 to become a “boy” on a commercial sailing ship in 1851.

Description

By 1865, Floyd had abandoned the merchant marine and become an assistant in a photographic studio in Shanghai. After briefly operating his own studio in Macau in 1866, he moved it to Hong Kong, which was a larger and busier port. For almost a decade, his was the most successful photographic studio in the Far East. In 1875, he closed that studio and moved to the Philippines.

See also
Collection: 
PH - British 19th Century
Department: 
Photography
Type of artwork: 
Photograph
Medium: 
Albumen print
Credit line: 
Sundry Art - Photography Fund

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