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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Five drawings of figures in Tanka boats is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
These five quick sketches show boat workers in Tanka boats. The artist drew them on paper in 1825. Four drawings show women standing with long steering poles. The fifth sketch shows a man bending over a fish basket. Chinnery’s loose lines catch the workers’ daily motion. The paper is small, so each mark counts. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
Five drawings by George Chinnery depict figures in Tanka boats, four showing boatwomen holding steering poles and one depicting a stooping man with a fish basket, all drawn at varying angles. These works are part of a larger album of 97 sketches featuring shipping, figures, and animals, primarily created in China. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, containing 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist before relocating to India in 1802 and later 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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