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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A cockerel is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a cockerel with its head lowered toward the ground, part of a volume containing 179 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist before traveling to India in 1802 and later settling in Macau in 1825, where he continued his artistic practice until his death in 1852.
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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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