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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A grazing cow is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew a cow in 1836. It’s a simple sheet, ink on paper. The cow stands with its head low, focused on the ground. This isn’t a big painting. It’s a quick sketch, done fast with a few lines. Yet it holds the quiet dignity of an animal doing its thing. Romanticism often turned to nature for feeling. Look up the technique he used: cross-hatching.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a cow with its head lowered to 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, exhibited miniature portraits at the Royal Academy before moving to India in 1802 and later settling in Macau in 1825, where he continued to draw.
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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