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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A junk off the south China coast is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made this ink drawing of a Cantonese junk off the China coast. The ship’s bow has a painted “eye.” The stern shows a bird with spread wings. On shore, a temple stands near Macau. Chinnery lived in Macau for twenty-seven years after 1825. He sketched the scene on paper with fine lines. Check out more of Chinnery’s work next time you visit the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A two-masted Cantonese coastal junk with an eye painted on its bows and a bird with outstretched wings on the stern transom is depicted in a drawing by George Chinnery, who created the work during his residence in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852. The scene includes a Chinese temple on the shore, possibly the A-Ma temple near the southwestern tip of the Macau peninsula. Executed in pencil, pen, ink, and wash, the drawing was purchased from P & D Colnaghi in 1921 as part of an album containing other works by Chinnery.
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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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