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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The 'Dutch Folly Fort', Canton is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a historic river fort called the Dutch Folly Fort in Canton. Artist George Chinnery drew it between 1825 and 1852. The work is part of Romanticism. The fort sat near Western trading posts known as the Factories. On the back, Chinnery sketched a barber instead. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more drawings by this artist.
The drawing depicts the Haizhu ('sea pearl') river fort near Canton, known to Westerners as the 'Dutch folly fort,' located almost opposite the Western 'Factories.' On the reverse side of the sheet is a sketch of a barber. Part of an album containing 93 sketches made in Macau and its surrounding areas, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. George Chinnery (1774–1852), a British artist, created the drawing during his residence in Macau, where he spent much of his later career.
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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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