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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Small Fort on the River opposite the Factories, Canton is a 14 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is titled Small Fort on the River opposite the Factories, Canton. It's a work by George Chinnery. The drawing shows a view of a fort and boats. The fort is specifically the 'Red Fort', and it's located on the north bank of the Pearl River. To learn more about the style of this drawing, look into the movement: Romanticism.
A drawing from a volume of 130 works depicting Macau, Guangzhou, and surrounding areas, this work shows the Red Fort on the Pearl River’s north bank in the Honan district, with Tanka boats moored alongside. The fort, often mistaken for the Haizhu or ‘Dutch folly’ fort, faced the foreign ‘factories’ of Canton (Guangzhou). The album, containing 93 drawings by George Chinnery, was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China, settled in Macau in 1825, where he worked until his death in 1852.
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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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