id:			386333
accession number:	2020.235
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.235
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:29.284000

Untitled (River, Hong Kong or Macau, China), 1866–73. William Pryor Floyd (British, 1834–c. 1900). Albumen print; image: 21.9 x 27.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.); paper: 21.9 x 27.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.); mounted: 26.8 x 34.1 cm (10 9/16 x 13 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Art - Photography Fund 2020.235

title:				Untitled (River, Hong Kong or Macau, China)
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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

* William Pryor Floyd (British, 1834–c. 1900)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 21.9 x 27.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.); Paper: 21.9 x 27.9 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.); Mounted: 26.8 x 34.1 cm (10 9/16 x 13 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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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:
A photographer’s choice of viewpoint and framing can radically change how we see a landscape.

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A young art form, photography had not yet fully developed its own visual traditions when William Pryor Floyd was working, so he often borrowed compositional formats from classical landscape painting. Here, he instead daringly placed the stream right in the middle of this composition. It wends its way in gentle S curves into the distance, drawing the viewer’s eye up and across the picture plane, until it disappears into distant trees.

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RELATED WORKS

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.235/2020.235_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.235/2020.235_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.235/2020.235_full.tif