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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A junk with a small boat alongside is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is titled A junk with a small boat alongside. It's a work by George Chinnery. The drawing shows a junk with its sails lowered. A small boat is alongside the junk, adding another element to the scene. This drawing was created between 1825 and 1852, a period of time that suggests Chinnery was active during this time. To learn more about the style and techniques used in this drawing, look up the technique of cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a junk with its sails lowered and a small boat moored alongside, part of a volume containing 97 sketches of shipping, figures, and animals, primarily created in China. The work is part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. Chinnery, a British artist born in 1774, worked in India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he produced numerous portraits and sketches of the local maritime environment.
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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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