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Untitled (River, Hong Kong or Macau, China)
Created 1866–73
Curatorial Overview
“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.”
Mediumalbumen print
Dimensions{"image":{"height":0.219,"height_inch":8,"height_inch_fraction":0.625,"width":0.279,"width_inch":11,"width_inch_fraction":0},"paper":{"height":0.219,"height_inch":8,"height_inch_fraction":0.625,"width":0.279,"width_inch":11,"width_inch_fraction":0},"mounted":{"height":0.268,"height_inch":10,"height_inch_fraction":0.5625,"width":0.341,"width_inch":13,"width_inch_fraction":0.4375}}
OriginEngland, 19th century
InstitutionThe Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession No.2020.235
Credit LineSundry Art - Photography Fund
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Continuing the Universe of William Pryor Floyd (British, 1834–c. 1900)
Photography • England, 19th century • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries
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