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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A small building and trees on a hillside, Macau is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This ink drawing shows a small stone building on a hill. Wooden posts hold up its sagging roof. A tree grows right out of the wall. The props look makeshift but last for years. Chinnery often sketched Macau’s crumbling buildings. He loved how nature took over man’s work. See how the roof lines tilt? It’s cross-hatching—fine lines that make shadows feel real. Check this artist’s other Macau drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing depicts a small building on a hillside in Macau, its extended roof supported by wooden props, with a tree growing from the stonework beneath the road. The work is part of an album containing 175 sketches made in China and India, bequeathed in 1928 as part of a larger collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852, established himself as a prominent artist among the European and North American merchant community in the Portuguese enclave.
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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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