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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A boatman beside a beached Tanka boat is a 2 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing shows a man and a boat. It's a simple scene, but what's interesting is that the boat is a Tanka boat, which is a type of boat traditionally used in Asia. The artist likely chose this subject to highlight the everyday life of people in this region. The style of this drawing is similar to that of other artists in the movement: Romanticism.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a man wearing a broad-brimmed hat standing beside a small Tanka boat, with a cluster of boat-dwellings sketched in the background. The work is part of a volume containing 460 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The drawing was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 works by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist in India before 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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