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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A boatwoman leaning against a beached Tanka boat is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from 1825 by George Chinnery. It shows a boatwoman near a Tanka boat on a beach. She wears a headscarf and a hat sits beside her. Chinnery spent years in southern China and southeast Asia. He often sketched daily life along rivers and coasts. This drawing catches a quiet moment. Next time, look up George Chinnery.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a boatwoman wearing a headscarf, resting against the stern of a beached Tanka boat, with a broad-brimmed hat placed beside her. Part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery.
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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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