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Lai Fong (1839-90)
Canton: Macao Passage 1881
Albumen print | 22.5 x 28.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2581170
Lai Fong (1839-90)
Canton: Macao Passage 1881
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Photograph of Guangzhou fort next to Zhu Ziang (Pearl River): pagoda with pyramid roof behind circular crenellated wall, surrounded by banyan trees. On the 26th December 1881, Prince's Albert Victor and George passed the Macao or Guangzhou Fort, identified by it's square tower.
This is a photograph from one of the nine albums compiled following Prince Albert Victor (1864-92) and Prince George of Wales' (1865-1936) world tour aboard HMS Bacchante from 1879 to 1882. The photographs were collected by their chaperon and tutor, John Neale Dalton.
The majority of the images in these albums are topographical views and architectural studies, loosely arranged according to the group’s itinerary. They include photographs of artefacts, local people and public figures, as well as portraits of the princes taken during the tour. The attempt to recreate the experience of a journey through such an assortment of images is common to many amateur travelling albums of this period. In 1886, some of the photographs in the albums were reproduced as engravings in the published accounts of the voyage, 'The Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship Bacchante, 1879-1882'.
Provenance
Album compiled by the Reverend J N Dalton (1839-1931) and presented to King George V
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Creator(s)
(photographer)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Albumen print
Measurements
22.5 x 28.0 cm (image)
Alternative title(s)
Fort, Pearl River, Canton
Canton : Macao Passage. [The Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante 1879-1882, Volume VI, China].
