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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A waterside building, Macau, raised on stone blocks is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from 1832 by George Chinnery. He shows a big building sitting on stone blocks right at the water’s edge. Wooden stakes line the front and steps drop down to the water on the side. The stones lift the building above any high tide. It feels sturdy and planned, not just dropped there. Next, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A waterside building in Macau is depicted in this drawing, elevated on stone piles with a row of wooden stakes along the front, and steps descending to the water on the right. The work is part of an album containing 93 sketches made in Macau and its vicinity, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. George Chinnery, the artist, was born in London in 1774 and worked primarily in India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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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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