A Tanka boat, with a smaller boat alongside
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Tanka boat, with a smaller boat alongside is a 1850 by Unknown, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a Tanka boat on calm water with two women inside and a man standing in a smaller boat nearby. Tanka boats were used by communities who lived on boats along China’s southern coast. The drawing looks handmade but might copy a now lost painting by George Chinnery, a British artist who traveled there. Check out the real drawing at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing from a volume of 130 works depicting Macau, Guangzhou, and its surroundings, this image shows a Tanka boat with two boatwomen and a man standing in a smaller adjacent boat. The work may be a copy of an original by George Chinnery, who spent his later years in Macau after establishing himself as a prominent artist in British India. The drawing is part of an album of 93 works bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, originally attributed to Chinnery.
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