The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 20, 2026

This horizontally oriented albumen print depicts a sepia-toned cemetery on a grassy hillside. In the middle ground, a stone chapel stands among dark trees, while a dirt path winds through grave markers. In the upper background, a large building crowns a steep hill. To the right, a distant harbor and jagged mountains fade into a pale gray sky. The photograph is centered on a wide, white paper mount.

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

Did You Know?

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.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.232