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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Plantain tree is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew a plantain tree in 1836. He used wash and pencil on paper. Two goats rest in the shade below the wide leaves. On the back of the sheet he sketched part of the A-Ma temple in Macau, plus a boatwoman steering a boat in pen and ink. It’s a quiet slice of life from Romantic-era Macau. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A wash drawing by George Chinnery depicts a large plantain tree providing shade for two goats beneath its branches. On the reverse side of the sheet are a pencil sketch of part of the A-Ma Temple in Macau and a pen-and-ink drawing of a boatwoman at the helm of a vessel. The work is one of 130 drawings Chinnery made in Macau, Guangzhou, and nearby areas, later bound into an album of 93 drawings bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange.
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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