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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Tanka boats in the Praya Grande, Macau is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a row of boats in shallow water, with a church in the background. The boats are Tanka boats, which is interesting because they were used by a specific group of people in Macau. This drawing is similar to works by artists who focused on everyday scenes, like the one you can learn more about by looking at the technique: cross-hatching.
A drawing depicts a line of Tanka boats resting in shallow water near the shore of the Praya Grande in Macau, with the church of São Francisco visible in the background. The work is part of an album containing 175 sketches made during Chinnery’s time in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, including 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852.
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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