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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese junks is a 4 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew these studies of Chinese junks in 1830. Each drawing shows one junk with four pennants at its stern. The sheets are separate, so he made them on different days. It’s a quick, careful look at ships from another time. Only three junks, but each one feels real. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see the drawings in person.
The drawing depicts three Chinese junks, each marked by four pennants at the stern, rendered in separate studies. It is part of a volume containing 130 drawings created in Macau, Guangzhou, and nearby areas. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who worked in British India and later settled in Macau.
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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