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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese official approaching a junk is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew this scene in 1825. It’s a quick line drawing, not a big painting. You see a junk boat with its rudder up high, floating on still water. The boat carries a mix of people. One figure sits while others stand under a parasol. It’s a snapshot of daily life on the water. Look up the technique called cross-hatching next.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a Chinese official in a multi-oared boat approaching a junk with its rudder raised, viewed from the stern; the smaller boat carries the seated figure accompanied by standing figures under a parasol. The work is part of a volume containing 93 sketches made in Macau and its vicinity. 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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