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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A group of Chinese figures is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made this drawing in 1825. It shows five Chinese men around a tray on a basket with a bowl on top. The men sit or stand in quiet poses. He worked in China during the 1800s. This sheet shows his careful linework and shading. You can feel the calm moment he captured. Look up the technique he used: cross-hatching.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts five Chinese men gathered around a tray placed atop a basket, with a bowl positioned on the tray. The work is part of a volume containing 460 drawings created in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The drawing was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 Chinnery works. Chinnery, who lived from 1774 to 1852, was a British artist known for his portraits and landscapes in India before settling in Macau in 1825.
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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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