14
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A crowded food stall, and of hands holding a bowl and a pole is a 14 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery’s 1842 drawing shows a lively food stall scene in China. It mixes two studies: one of hands holding a bowl and chopsticks, the other of a hand gripping a pole. This quick pen sketch packs quick, everyday moments into one sheet. It’s a small slice of daily life, caught on paper in just three days. Look up cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a busy food stall with Chinese figures engaged in eating or serving food, alongside studies of hands holding a bowl and chopsticks and a hand gripping a pole. Part of a volume containing 460 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of an album of 93 works by George 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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