1835
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Tanka boats raised on stilts, Macau is a 1835 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts two Tanka boats propped on stilts on a beach, with laundry strung between them. It is one of 93 sheets in an album of sketches made in Macau and its surroundings. The album was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a larger collection of George Chinnery’s works.
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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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