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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Houses of Mr. Whiteman ("the forty-pillared house") and Captain Elliott, and Monte Fort, Macao is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows Macau’s historic buildings around the Franciscan Green in 1836. George Chinnery captures the scene with careful lines and shading. On the left is the forty-pillared house owned by John Whiteman of the East India Company. The hill behind holds Fort Monte, while the bay below shows boats and a curving stone wall. The gate to the Santa Clara convent appears on the right. Figures in Tanka boats move along the water, adding life to the view. Check out more works by George Chinnery.
This drawing depicts a view of Macau’s Franciscan Green area, featuring the Monte Fort on a hill in the background, the gateway to the Santa Clara convent on the right, and the curved stone wall of the Praya Grande in the foreground, where Tanka boat figures are visible in the bay. The large house on the left, known as the "forty-pillared house," belonged to John Clarmont Whiteman, a director of the East India Company and founder of Whiteman & Co, while Captain Charles Elliot, later an admiral, served as Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China during the first Opium War. The work is…
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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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