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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese figures is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made these drawings in 1825. They show everyday life in Macau. Three are quick studies of a porter with tiles on a pole. The fourth sketch shows a fisherman on a rock. He holds a net and baskets. It looks over the Praya Grande waterfront. His cross-hatching and stippling bring these scenes to life. Look up George Chinnery next.
Three drawings in the album depict a porter carrying tiles on a shoulder pole, while the fourth shows a fisherman with a pole, net, and baskets on a rock overlooking Macau’s Praya Grande. The album contains 130 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and nearby areas. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 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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