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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
View of East India Company's Factory, Canton is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery sketched this view of the East India Company’s factory in Canton. It’s a drawing meant to guide a later painting. You can see boats on the Pearl River and a new roof terrace built for the English traders. The artist squared the drawing in pencil. That means he planned to copy it larger, probably in watercolor or oil. Look up George Chinnery next.
This drawing by George Chinnery depicts a view of the East India Company's factory in Canton, showing junks and Tanka boats on the Pearl River and a newly constructed roof terrace above the English factory. The work is part of a volume containing 130 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and nearby areas. The drawing is squared up in pencil for transfer to a watercolour or oil painting. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery.
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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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