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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Penha Hill and the Praya Grande, Macau is a 9 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows Penha Hill rising above Macau’s curved Praya Grande bay. In the foreground, a small fort and fishing boats dot the water. The artist labeled two key houses: “Albany” and William Shepherd Wetmore’s home. Chinnery spent years in Macau and knew these buildings well. His lines are sharp and precise, using cross-hatching to shade the hillside. See his other drawings of Macau at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts Penha Hill in Macau, with the third sheet showing buildings along the curved shoreline of the Praya Grande, including the fortlet of S. Pedro in the foreground and fishing boats in the shallows. Shorthand inscriptions identify "Albany," the westernmost European-style house on the Praya Grande, and the residence of American merchant William Shepherd Wetmore. Part of an album containing 175 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery.
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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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