8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The church of S. Francisco, Macau is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew this view of Macau in 1830. It shows the church of S. Francisco with steps leading up. In the foreground, people stand near a small boat on the shore. Chinnery lived in Macau for years and often sketched its streets. This drawing is part of the Romanticism movement, which liked detailed scenes of real life. Want to see more like this? Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the church of São Francisco in Macau, with steps leading to its entrance, and includes figures gathered near a boat on the shore in the foreground. Part of an album containing 93 sketches made in Macau and its vicinity, the work was bequeathed in 1928 as part of that collection. George Chinnery, who created the drawing, was an artist born in London in 1774 and spent his later years in Macau from 1825 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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