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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Praya Grande, Macau, from S. Pedro fort is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery’s pencil drawing shows Macau’s Praya Grande waterfront from S. Pedro fort. The scene captures old stone walls and a curved bay lined with buildings. The artist worked in Macau during the 1830s, a time when British and Portuguese traders shared the port. Tanka boat people appear in the foreground, their small wooden boats tied close to the shore. This drawing uses fine cross-hatching to shade the buildings and hills. See it at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the Praya Grande in Macau, viewed westward from the fort of S. Pedro, with Tanka boats positioned along the shoreline. Part of an album containing 175 sketches made during travels in China and India, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, a British artist active from the late 18th to mid-19th century, spent his later years in Macau after establishing himself as a prominent portrait painter in India.
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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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