id:			386332
accession number:	2020.234
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.234
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:29.278000

Untitled (Hong Kong, St. John’s Cathedral, from the Parade Ground, H.M. Regiment on Parade), 1866–73. Lai Fong (Afong Studio) (Chinese, c. 1839–1890). Albumen print; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Art - Photography Fund 2020.234

title:				Untitled (Hong Kong, St. John’s Cathedral, from the Parade Ground, H.M. Regiment on Parade)
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creation date:			1866–73
creation date earliest:		1866
creation date latest:		1873
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creditline:			Sundry Art - Photography Fund
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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	albumen print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - British 19th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Lai Fong (Afong Studio) (Chinese, c. 1839–1890)  - artist

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measurements: 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.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Alexander Young Herries [1827-1918]
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	(Pump Park Vintage Photography, Co. Down, Ireland)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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fun fact:
Lai Fong was the most successful nineteenth-century Chinese commercial photographer in China.

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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.

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.234/2020.234_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.234/2020.234_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.234/2020.234_full.tif