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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A drawing by George Chinnery of aA Chinese junk, with figures aboard and small craft alongside is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery’s 1825 drawing shows a Chinese junk docked in Macau, sails furled one fully down, one half-lowered. Two men stand on deck, two others row in a small boat beside the hull. It’s a quiet moment, just work on the water. The artist was British but spent years in Macau, sketching daily life. This sheet is one of many he made there. Look up George Chinnery next.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a Macau junk with two figures aboard and two more in a small boat nearby. The junk’s sails are partially furled, with one lowered fully and another partly lowered. The work is part of an album containing 93 sketches made in Macau and its vicinity, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852, created the drawing during his time in the Portuguese enclave.
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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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