1841
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Buildings on the Praya Grande, Macau, with two studies of a Westerner is a 1841 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a drawing of buildings in Macau with a Westerner. The drawing shows a specific spot, the Praya Grande, from a certain angle. It's interesting because it matches part of an oil painting, and the artist included extra sketches of the balconies and the Westerner. Check out the technique of cross-hatching to learn more about how drawings like this are made.
The drawing depicts Macau’s Praya Grande waterfront from Franciscan Green, looking west, with a detailed sketch of the ‘forty-pillared house’ and its balconies included above. Two studies of a gesturing Westerner are also present on the same sheet, which relates to a figure in an oil painting of the Praya Grande in the HSBC collection. The work is part of an album of 175 sketches made in China and India. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album containing 93 drawings by George Chinnery.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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