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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese junk, Macau is a 20 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing of a Chinese junk from Macau. It shows a three-masted ship with its sails down but small flags flying at the back. The work is done in ink, likely with careful shading. George Chinnery made it in 1835. He spent years in Macau and Macau Bay, sketching ships and people. This drawing shows the mix of Chinese and European styles he knew. It’s a calm scene, but full of details only someone who watched boats every day would notice. Look up George Chinnery next.
A three-masted Chinese junk is depicted in Macau, with figures aboard and lowered sails bearing raised pennants at the stern. The drawing is part of an album containing 93 sketches made by George Chinnery in Macau and its surroundings.
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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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