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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The awning of a Tanka boat, and a reclining dog is a 14 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew a Tanka boat’s awning and a dog at rest in 1844. The scene shows everyday life by China’s southern coast. A dog lies with one front paw stretched out. The Tanka boat has a half-circle roof. It was used by people who lived on the water. Chinnery’s quick lines catch the boat and dog without fuss. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The drawings depict the semicircular awning of a Tanka boat, typically used by the water-dwelling people of the south China coast, alongside a dog reclining with one foreleg extended. They are part of a volume containing 179 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau. The album, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, originally included 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist in India and later settled in Macau in 1825, where he continued to produce drawings of local life.
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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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