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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Praya Grande, Macau is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is George Chinnery’s 1836 ink drawing of Macau’s Praya Grande. The scene shows the bay’s curved waterfront, fishing boats, and Penha Hill in the background. Tiny figures line the shore—some small boats bob near the rocks. Chinnery lived in Macau for years, sketching daily life. He used quick, scratchy lines to capture movement and light. The drawing feels alive in a way you don’t expect from ink. It’s a rare slice of 1800s Macau before big changes.
The drawing depicts the Praya Grande waterfront in Macau, oriented toward Penha Hill in the southwest, with small boats and figures visible along the shoreline. It is part of an album containing 175 sketches made during Chinnery’s travels in China and India. The work was later bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who spent the latter part of his career in Macau after earlier years in India and Europe.
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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