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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A sketch of a Chinese figure standing in a Tanka boat is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a study of a single figure in a Tanka boat. The man’s broad-brimmed hat suggests time spent on open water. The back carries another quick sketch—a pig drawn in pen and ink over pencil. A few faint pencil lines crowd the page too. It’s a small drawing full of movement and quick marks. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The sketch depicts a figure wearing a broad-brimmed hat standing at the stern of a Tanka boat, with its sail lowered. On the reverse side, a pig is drawn in pen and ink over pencil, accompanied by additional pencil sketches. Part of a volume containing 97 sheets of sketches featuring shipping, figures, and animals, most created in China, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George 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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