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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Pagoda halfway between Canton and Whampoa is a 18 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, depicting Tower, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew the Pagoda halfway between Canton and Whampoa in 1831. It shows a tower on paper, not oil on canvas. This tower marked the halfway point for Western traders between their river forts and the ships at Whampoa. No other pagoda like it stood in that exact spot. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more Chinnery drawings.
A drawing by George Chinnery, it depicts the Chigang Pagoda, located near Canton (Guangzhou), which served as a landmark for Western merchants and sailors, marking the midpoint between their trading posts and the anchorage at Whampoa (Huangpu) downstream. The work is part of an album containing 130 drawings created in Macau, Guangzhou, and surrounding areas. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and includes 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist before relocating to India and later to Macau in 1825, where he spent the remainder of his…
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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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