8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A cow is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing shows a cow lying on the ground. It's a simple subject, but the fact that it's a drawing from 1841 makes it interesting. The artist used this drawing to practice their skills, and it's now held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is also associated with the movement Romanticism, but to learn more about similar drawings, look up the technique cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a cow lying on the ground, part of a volume containing 179 sheets of works created in Bengal and Macau. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who worked across India and China in the early 19th century. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, established himself as a leading portrait artist in British India before relocating to Macau in 1825, where he continued to draw until his death in 1852.
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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