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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A donkey is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, depicting Donkey, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made this drawing of a donkey in India. It shows the animal from the side, its head turned to face us. The paper type tells us this was done in the early 1800s. Chinnery used laid paper, a common material for travel sketches. The drawing fits the Romanticism style, which liked animals as symbols. It’s a simple sheet, but it tells us about art and life then. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a donkey seen from the right, its head turned toward the viewer, rendered on laid paper, indicating it was made in India. The work is part of a volume containing 179 sheets of drawings executed in Bengal and Macau. George Chinnery (1774–1852), a British artist, worked in India and China, establishing himself as a prominent portraitist in British India before settling in Macau.
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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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