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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese blacksmith at his forge is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Here’s a sketch of a man at work in 1831. George Chinnery drew a Chinese blacksmith resting on a bench, pipe in hand, tools glowing nearby under a straw parasol. The scene feels quiet but alive—fire, metal, and smoke all in one small scene. Chinnery made this with simple lines, no color. The man’s still moment tells a bigger story of everyday labor. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A seated man smokes a tobacco pipe on a bench beside an anvil, furnace, and bellows under a straw parasol, depicted in a drawing by George Chinnery. The work is part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings 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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