The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 1, 2023

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

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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.

Provenance
Alexander Young Herries [1827-1918)
?-2020
(Pump Park Vintage Photography, Co. Down, Ireland)
September 14, 2020
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.232