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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The 'Red Fort' on the river at Guangzhou (Canton) is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows the Red Fort on the Pearl River in Guangzhou. The fort was an old Chinese building near Western trading posts. You can still see its red walls and sloped roofs. Chinnery worked in China for years. He made many drawings like this. The lines are sharp and careful. See more of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the Red Fort situated along the southern bank of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, positioned opposite the former Western trading posts known as factories. 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, born in London in 1774, worked primarily as a portrait artist before relocating to India in 1802 and later settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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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