George Chinnery (1774-1852) The Reeves Macao Album, 1836-1837 signed with initials and inscribed on the front pastedown 'I have added a few sketches in water colour which I hope you'll approve of - GC', approximately 200 sketches of Macao and environs comprising scenery and street scenes, sketches of Chinese figures, Tanka boats and boat people, animals, junks, sampans and other sailing craft, 69 leaves, with one loosely inserted sheet (with sketches after Chinnery), 45 pages with multiple sketches, 31 pages with single sketches, including one view of Sao Francisco Fort across two pages, the majority pencil filled in with pen and sepia ink, 5 watercolour, 5 pencil, pen and ink and sepia wash, 9 pencil, the leaves 273 x 203mm., one panoramic sketch of S. Pedro Fort and the Praya Grande extended on the left with an addition 121 x 191mm., the majority inscribed in Chinnery's (Gurney) shorthand and dated (18)37, five dated 1836. 4° album, original half pigskin over boards, 2 [?later but contemporary] white metal clasps at fore-edges, blue speckled edges.
George Chinnery (1774-1852) The Reeves Macao Album, 1836-1837 signed with initials and inscribed on the front pastedown 'I have added a few sketches in water colour which I hope you'll approve of - GC', approximately 200 sketches of Macao and environs comprising scenery and street scenes, sketches of Chinese figures, Tanka boats and boat people, animals, junks, sampans and other sailing craft, 69 leaves, with one loosely inserted sheet (with sketches after Chinnery), 45 pages with multiple sketches, 31 pages with single sketches, including one view of Sao Francisco Fort across two pages, the majority pencil filled in with pen and sepia ink, 5 watercolour, 5 pencil, pen and ink and sepia wash, 9 pencil, the leaves 273 x 203mm., one panoramic sketch of S. Pedro Fort and the Praya Grande extended on the left with an addition 121 x 191mm., the majority inscribed in Chinnery's (Gurney) shorthand and dated (18)37, five dated 1836. 4° album, original half pigskin over boards, 2 [?later but contemporary] white metal clasps at fore-edges, blue speckled edges.
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