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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Cattle grazing by a ruinous building is a 7 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows cattle grazing near a old, ruined building. The artist added a simple shelter made of posts and planks to the building. It's interesting that the drawing also includes two small sketches of Chinese figures, which suggests the artist was inspired by different cultures. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Chinnery, George.
The drawing depicts cattle grazing beside a decaying structure reinforced with posts and planks, with a distant view of cultivated land, accompanied by two pencil sketches of Chinese figures. Part of an album containing 175 sheets of sketches made in China and India, it was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked primarily as a portraitist before relocating to India and later settling in Macau, where he produced numerous works until his death in 1852.
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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