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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
A blacksmith with his eqipment and a sleeping dog is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made this detailed drawing of a working blacksmith. The scene shows a small fire in a stand and a man using a pipe to feed the flames. A wooden bucket, anvil, and bellows sit nearby. A dog sleeps through the noise. Look closer and you’ll spot another quick sketch upside-down of the same bucket on the left. The drawing captures quiet moments in ordinary work. Check out the artist’s other scenes of daily life.
A blacksmith bends over a small, smoking furnace mounted on a triangular stand, possibly fanning the flames with a pipe. Nearby are a wooden pail with a rope handle, an anvil, cylindrical bellows, a low bench, and a sleeping dog. On the left side of the composition is an inverted study of a pail. The drawing is executed in pen and ink over pencil.
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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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