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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The A-Ma temple, Macau is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing shows steps leading up to a gateway, with trees and a hill in the background. This drawing is interesting because it shows a specific part of the A-Ma temple in Macau. It gives us a glimpse of what the temple looked like. To learn more about the skills used to create this detailed drawing, look into the technique: cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts part of the A-Ma temple in Macau, showing steps ascending to a gateway with trees visible on the hillside beyond. It is one of 175 sketches in an album documenting Chinnery’s travels in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, containing 93 works by George Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852.
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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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