12
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Part of boat village is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a home built from pieces of an old Tanka boat. The house sits on rocks and stakes. Nearby, some boatpeople cook on a stove. It’s a quick, detailed scene. George Chinnery sketched this in the 1830s. The drawing uses simple lines to show the rough life by the water. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A drawing depicts a dwelling constructed from salvaged parts of a beached Tanka boat, elevated on rocks and wooden stakes and adorned with potted plants, with boatpeople and a cooking stove visible to the left. The work is part of a volume containing 130 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and its surrounding areas. The album, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, originally included 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who lived from 1774 to 1852.
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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