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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The A-Ma Temple, Macau is a 15 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew the gateways of A-Ma Temple in Macau in 1830. It’s a Romanticism work done on paper. You can see the temple gate from the water, Tanka boats bobbing in front, and hills behind with trees. The drawing shows Macau’s landscape in 1830. Tanka boats hint at local life on the river. Next, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the gateways of the A-Ma Temple in Macau, viewed from the water, with Tanka boats in the foreground and trees on the hillside above. It is part of a volume of 97 sheets of sketches featuring shipping, figures, animals, and other subjects, mostly created in China. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and contains 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852. Chinnery, a British artist, established himself in India before relocating to China, where he worked among European and North American merchants in Macau.
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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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