8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The rocky shore by the A-Ma Temple, Macau is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The painting shows a rocky shore with large waterside rocks and trees near a temple. The scene includes tall masts and boats offshore, which suggests it's a busy harbor. This drawing is interesting because it gives us a glimpse of what the area looked like over a century ago. To learn more about this style, look into the technique: cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts large waterside rocks and trees near the A-Ma Temple, with tall ship masts and Tanka boats visible offshore. It is part of an album containing 175 sheets of sketches made in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and includes 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portrait artist before moving to India and later settling in Macau, where he died 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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