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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Kneeling figues by a temple mast, Macau is a 11 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from 1833 showing a group of people in Chinese conical hats. Some stand, some kneel with heads bowed near a temple mast. It’s a quiet scene outside the A-Ma temple in Macau. The artist used Romanticism’s expressive style to capture a moment of reverence. The figures’ postures suggest respect or prayer before the temple. Next, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts a group of figures wearing conical Chinese hats, some standing and others kneeling with bowed heads, positioned near one of the masts in front of the A-Ma Temple in Macau. Three standing figures, possibly monks, appear on the right side of the composition. It is part of a volume containing 93 sheets of sketches made in Macau and its vicinity by George Chinnery. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange.
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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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