5
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The gateway to the convent of Santa Clara, Macau is a 5 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a tall, arched gateway made of stone. The design mixes curved and straight lines. It looks heavy and solid, like a fortress door. George Chinnery visited Macau in the 1830s. He drew many local buildings before cameras existed. This gate linked a Franciscan area to a quiet convent. It’s a rare record of a place now gone. His detailed lines are sharp and precise. You can almost feel the weight of the stone. See more of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the ornate baroque gateway that connected the Franciscan Green to the Convent of Santa Clara in Macau, with an inscription referencing a similar entrance to the Church of São José. Part of an album containing 175 sketches made in China and India, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China, settled in Macau in 1825, where he worked among a European and American merchant community.
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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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