Yung-foo
ca. 1869
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 9 1/2 × 11 1/4 in. (24.1 × 28.6 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.494.5
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Yung-foo" is a captivating albumen silver print from a negative, created around 1869 by Tung Hing, of the earliest documented Chinese photographers. Captured during the late Qing dynasty, this 9½ × 11¼-inch image (24.1 × 28.6 cm) showcases a serene landscape featuring boats, evoking the bustling waterways of 19th-century China. Now part of the Gilman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a rare window into everyday scenes from this transformative era. The albumen process, dominant in photography from the 1850s to the 1890s, involved coating paper with egg whites mixed with lig...