6
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The Praya Grande, Macau, with studies of a boatwoman and a rowing boat is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows buildings along a seawall with a boatwoman and a rowing boat. The scene is detailed, with the boatwoman carrying a child on her back. She's standing near a beached rowing boat, which adds to the everyday feel of the scene. This drawing is a simple depiction of daily life. To learn more about similar drawings, look up the technique: cross-hatching.
The sheet combines three drawings: a view of the Praya Grande’s seawall buildings looking west toward Penha Hill, a study of a standing boatwoman with a child on her back, and a depiction of a beached rowing boat. Part of an album containing 175 sketches made in China and India, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a larger group of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist before relocating to British India in 1812, later settling in Macau in 1825 where he remained 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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