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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese blacksmith at work is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a quick pen-and-ink drawing from 1836. It shows a blacksmith hunched over his anvil, hammer lifted and ready. The sheet is small, just a few inches across. George Chinnery drew it in Macao, where he lived for years. He focused on everyday workers and the tools they used. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see where it lives.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a blacksmith bent over an anvil, holding a hammer. The work is part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The drawing was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album 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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