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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A beached Tanka boat adapted as a dwelling is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a beached boat turned into a home. It's a simple dwelling made from the boat's old parts. The drawing also includes a woman, a child, and a goat, giving us a glimpse into the daily life of the people living there. To learn more about the methods used to create this detailed drawing, look up the technique: cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a boatwoman and child beside a makeshift dwelling constructed from the bamboo and rattan framework of a beached Tanka boat, accompanied by studies of a figure hammering and a goat. Part of an album containing 175 sketches made in China and India, the work was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China from 1802 to 1852, is known for his portraits and landscapes in a colonial context.
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George Chinnery (Chinese: 錢納利; 5 January 1774 – 30 May 1852) was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China.
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