19
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese boatpeople by a makeshift dwelling on the shore is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing from a volume containing 93 sheets of sketches made in Macau and its vicinity, this work depicts a boatwoman wearing a headscarf standing on the shore beside two children, with a temporary dwelling constructed of rattan and bamboo nearby and boats sketched in the bay beyond.
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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