12
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Chinese woman seated on a mat is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery sketched this drawing in 1848. It shows a woman sitting on a mat, drawn with ink and pencil. The work is small and quick, like a study rather than a polished picture. We know it’s a boatwoman thanks to the museum’s note. The artist also jotted a quick head and legs nearby—maybe practice for another piece. George Chinnery
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a boatwoman seated on a mat, accompanied by pencil sketches of a woman's head and a man's legs. Part of a volume containing 496 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery.
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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