1834
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A boatwoman with two children, one of them strapped to her back is a 1834 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing from an album of 93 sheets by George Chinnery, depicting a barefoot boatwoman wearing a headscarf, holding one child in front of her while another is strapped to her back. The album contains sketches made in Macau and its vicinity during Chinnery’s residence there from 1825 until his death in 1852. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, established himself as a prominent portrait artist in British India before relocating to Macau. The drawing is part of a bequest from James Orange, received in 1928.
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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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