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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The village below the College of San José, Macau is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a quiet scene in Macau. It’s a pencil work from the 1800s. The artist captured a boat on the shore and a line of houses. Look closer and you’ll spot the domed church of San José in the background. That church still stands today. The artist used Romanticism’s mood to frame everyday life. Next time you visit the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a Tanka boat stranded on the shore of Macau’s Inner Harbour, with a row of village houses and a high wall in the middle ground, and the domed seminary church of San José rising above them. Part of an album containing 93 sketches made in Macau and its surroundings, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. Chinnery, who lived in Macau from 1825 until his death in 1852, produced numerous drawings of the region’s landscape and people during his time there.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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