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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese blacksmith's equipment is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a drawing of a blacksmith's equipment, with baskets, an anvil, and a furnace. The equipment is arranged in a way that suggests it's portable. This drawing was made in either Macau or Guangzhou, which is interesting because it shows what blacksmithing looked like in those places. To learn more about this style of drawing, look into the technique of cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a blacksmith's setup, including baskets, an anvil, a smoking furnace, and rectangular bellows mounted on a portable stand, created in either Macau or Guangzhou. It is part of an album of 175 sketches made during travels in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a larger collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, a British artist active from 1791 to 1852, worked primarily in India before settling in Macau in 1825.
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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