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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Blacksmiths' equipment, Macau is a 15 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows blacksmith tools on a shelf. A hammer, anvil, bellows and some wooden boards sit in a neat row. The artist used fine lines to show every scratch and dent. The back of the sheet holds quick sketches of people sitting near a wall. Two groups are drawn close together, as if waiting or talking. It feels like a quiet moment caught between work shifts. Look for more like this at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts blacksmiths' tools such as an anvil, protective boards, a hammer, and bellows, accompanied on the reverse by pencil sketches of two groups of figures at the base of a wall. It is part of an album containing 175 sheets of sketches made in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and originally included 93 drawings by George Chinnery.
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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