19
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A junk with a Tanka boat alongside is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew a junk boat next to a Tanka boat. The scene shows a village with a pagoda on a hill, maybe Whampoa’s. He worked in the Romantic style. This sheet has two drawings—one on each side. The front shows the boats and village, the back shows a seven-storey pagoda glowing in the sun. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts a junk accompanied by a Tanka boat, with a village and a distant pagoda on a hill—possibly Whampoa (Huangbu)—in the background. On the reverse side is a sketch of a seven-storey pagoda on a small hill, illuminated by the sun, with Tanka boats in the foreground. Part of a volume containing 97 sheets of sketches featuring shipping, figures, and animals, most drawn in China, it was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery.
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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