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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The street market outside the church of S. Domingos, Macau is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a busy market scene beside the church of S. Domingos in Macau. George Chinnery made it between 1825 and 1852 using simple pencil or ink on paper. The street is crowded with people and stalls, and you can just see part of the church’s stone railings on the right. If this kind of lively crowd drawing grabs you, look up the technique called cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a bustling street market crowded outside the church of S. Domingos in Macau, with part of the church’s façade and railings visible on the right side. It is one of 93 sketches made in Macau and its surrounding areas, contained in an album bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. The work was created by George Chinnery, a British artist who settled in Macau in 1825 after years of travel and artistic activity in India and China. Chinnery’s sketches often captured the daily life and multicultural interactions of the port city.
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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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