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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A boatwoman sitting on a beached boat is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a boatwoman sitting on a beached boat. George Chinnery made it in 1836. The woman faces away, her headscarf tied tight. The artist sketched her simply with pencil. Just a quick study, not a finished work. It shows how artists often recorded daily life. Next time you’re in London, look for it at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a boatwoman from behind, seated on the stern of a beached boat, wearing a headscarf. The work is part of a volume containing 460 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, became a prominent artist in British 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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