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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Small bridge near Honan is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew a small bridge near Honan in 1832. It’s a pencil drawing on paper. The scene shows part of a beam bridge over a river. The bridge sits on stone blocks in the water. Houses line both sides of the river. Tanka boats sail past below. This drawing was a guide for a bigger watercolor or oil painting. The artist used a grid to transfer the design later. Look up George Chinnery next.
The drawing depicts a section of a beam bridge at Honan, opposite the factories in Guangzhou, supported by a stone pier, with houses flanking both sides and Tanka boats on the river. It is part of an album containing 130 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and nearby areas, and is squared up for transfer to a watercolor or oil painting. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who spent his later years in Macau after establishing himself as a prominent artist in British India.
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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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