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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The A-Ma temple, Macau, and the nearby rocks, both seen from the bay is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing shows the A-Ma temple in Macau and nearby rocks from the bay. It includes the sea wall and Tanka boats. You can see a smaller drawing of the rocks beyond the temple. The details of the temple and boats are interesting because they show what Macau looked like a long time ago. The artist drew the scene from offshore, which gives a unique view. To learn more about similar drawings, look up the technique: cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts the A-Ma Temple in Macau, viewed from the bay, alongside the sea wall and Tanka boats, with a secondary sketch showing the large offshore rocks beyond the temple. Part of an album of 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 born in 1774, worked extensively in India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained 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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