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Untitled (River, Hong Kong or Macau, China)

1866–73

William Pryor Floyd

(British, 1834–c. 1900)
Culture
England, 19th century
Medium
albumen print
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.)
Credit Line
Sundry Art - Photography Fund 2020.235
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Description

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.
A horizontally oriented albumen print in muted sepia and cream depicts a winding river snaking through a lush landscape. In the foreground, water flows around a central landmass toward the right. A solitary tree rises from a grassy slope on the lower right. Beyond the river, a flat clearing leads to a dense, textured forest covering a rising hillside. A pale sky sits above the dark, intricate canopy.

Untitled (River, Hong Kong or Macau, China)

1866–73

William Pryor Floyd

(British, 1834–c. 1900)
England, 19th century

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