George Chinnery (18 results)

Condition: New.

First Edition. Very good saddle-stitched pamphlet copy in the original printed wrappers, now slightly dust-toned and edgeworn. Internally tight, bright and clean; remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 28 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm. Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held 29 June to 28 July 1957 at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Organised by the Arts Council Scottish Committee. Includes bibliographical references (page 8). Subjects: Chinnery, George, 1774-1852 - Exhibitions. Painters - Great Britain - 19th century - Exhibitions. Painters - Ireland - 19th century - Exhibitions. Painting, British - 19th century - Exhibitions. Painting, British - 18th century - Exhibitions. Expatriate painters - Asia - 19th century - Exhibitions. India - In art - Exhibitions. China - In art - Exhibitions. Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) - In art - Exhibitions. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good saddle-stitched pamphlet copy in the original printed wrappers, now slightly dust-toned and edgeworn. Internally tight, bright and clean; remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 28 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm. Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held 29 June to 28 July 1957 at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Organised by the Arts Council Scottish Committee. Includes bibliographical references (page 8). Subjects: Chinnery, George, 1774-1852 - Exhibitions. Painters - Great Britain - 19th century - Exhibitions. Painters - Ireland - 19th century - Exhibitions. Painting, British - 19th century - Exhibitions. Painting, British - 18th century - Exhibitions. Expatriate painters - Asia - 19th century - Exhibitions. India - In art - Exhibitions. China - In art - Exhibitions. Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) - In art - Exhibitions. 1 Kg.…

Condition: Very Good. 16 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Saturday Books; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 9 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: Quarto. Category: The Connoisseur; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Softcover. Tan illustrated wraps with blue lettering, 144 pp, illustrated in bw and color. Parallel title in Chinese. In English and Chinese. Held in Hong Kong Museum of Art, Mar.-Apr. 1985. Includes bibliographical references. Good (light foxing to block edges).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original waxed navy cloth effect covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, blue lining papers. 4to. 11'' x 57¼''. Contains 180 pp with monochrome and colour illustrations and maps throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 88 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 29 cm. At his best, George Chinnery was a splendid artist. For a living he painted portraits of swaggering lieutenants, hoary governors and their beribboned wives, American sea-captains, and Chinese and Parsi merchants. George Chinnery immersed himself in these Asian cultures and his drawings and watercolours of local people and their daily activities are regarded by many as his most compelling work: crowded market scenes, fishermen landing on the beach, blacksmiths working at their bellows, gamblers playing in the street, boat-people making makeshift shelters, junks at anchor on a calm evening. This exhibition, the first of Chinnery's work in London for over 50 years, comprises some 100 works showing Chinnery's range, from oils and watercolours to landscapes and portraits, with a special emphasis on his vivid and deceptively simple watercolours, and his fluent drawings of the people going about their everyday lives. Also included are a group of his self-portraits, presenting 'the ugliest man on the China coast', as he regarded himself, at varying ages and in contrasting states of mind. Over 100 paintings and drawings are reproduced in outstanding quality and show his work to the best advantage. The book also places his work in context and includes works by his contemporaries.…

Tokyo Bunko & Lisboa, 1985. Text & 235 tinted ills. Soft cover.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Robinson, T.H.; Gillett, F.; Horne, A.E.; Cleaver, Ralph; Brightwell, L.R.; Prater, Ernest; Tennant, Dudley; Webb, Arch.; Black, A. & M.; Soper, G.; Coller, Hy. (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1967 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 74 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 74 Chinnery, George, 1774-1852.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1810 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 26 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio, 6 drawings by George Chinnery printed on card with a title page with brief text. Contained in a card card box with a paper label, the box split at the edges. The prints which are reproduced to a high quality are in fine condition.

Painting. Condition: Good + overall. An early gouache portrait of Houqua, considered the richest man in the world in the 1830s. 'This gouache portrait of Howqua, exists in several versions and sizes, from full-length to head and shoulders . some in oils and others in gouache. They seem to have had their origin in a group of portraits executed by Chinnery, the portrait of Howqua, was probably shipped to England on January 31st 1830. Following and adapting Chinnery's prototypes, Lamqua must have done a brisk business in such portraits. In particular, the distinctive features of Howqua domed forehead, hollow cheeks, wispy beard gained an almost iconic status, the acceptable face, as it were, of the China trade.' (P. Conner, 'Lamqua Western and Chinese Painter', Arts of Asia, March-April 1899, p.54). This portrait has elements of several images of Houqua. The basic structure is based on the portrait held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the style of George Chinnery. In that portrait, Houqua sits on a red banquette, looking straight at the painter, his legs crossed, wearing a dark blue robe with white cuffs, a central elaborate panel of embroidery at his chest and wide pants decorated with diagonal strips of blue, green and red. He also wears two or three strings of beads, his red domed hat to the left, a wooden doorway framework and an open space behind with a sky and a Chinese red-tasseled lantern hanging above him to the right. There is also a silver colored metal object at the left of his foot and a wooden footstool. In this portrait, the face is of an older Houqua, appearing similar to the Tinqua "Portrait of Houqua" portrait on ivory also at the Metropolitan. This image varies from that format, most strikingly on the intricate dragon coat pattern which we have not been able to trace in any other variant of this portrait. Another variation is the harbor background found in many examples, which has been blocked by a wall extending from the pillar on the right. Howqua, the representative of the thirteen factories among the Guangzhou merchants. The subject of this portrait is probably Wu Bingjian (1769-1843), the richest man on earth during the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods, or possibly his fifth son, Wu Shaorong (1833-1856). Howqua Wu Bingjian, had risen to become the most senior of the hong merchants in Canton, one of a select few permitted to trade in silk and porcelain with foreigners. The word hong (?) refers to both a type of building and a Chinese merchant intermediary within the Canton system of trade. Howqua's personal wealth was estimated to be around US $26 million by 1834. He contributed a third of the US $3 million that China's Qing dynasty was required to pay in reparations to the British after the 1842 Treaty of Nanking that ended the First Opium War. He had close ties with powerful contemporaries such as James Matheson, William Jardine, Samuel Russell and Abiel Abbot Low. Gouache portrait on paper, 20 1/4 x 14". There are a number of expertly repaired cracks that are barely visible as well as a matching Chinese pattern strip of paper applied to the vacant top left corner. This portrait was most recently featured on the cover of March 2026 issue of Antiques Weekly newspaper.…