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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A boatwoman holding a child is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from 1835. George Chinnery shows a boatwoman standing with a child in her arms. It’s a simple scene, but it feels real. The drawing has extra sketches on the back. They show figures cut off below the waist. That detail makes you wonder about the rest of the story. Check out another drawing by George Chinnery.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a standing boatwoman holding a child in her arms, with additional figure studies on the reverse, cut off below the waist. Part of an album containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a collection of 93 works by Chinnery.
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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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