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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A group of game-players, and a study of clasped hands is a 7 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery’s drawing mixes two scenes in one. Four men sit by a basket, one standing with his hands clasped behind his back. A separate pencil sketch zooms in on those hands, showing fine details. The artist worked on this over ten years, finishing it in 1851. It’s part of the Romantic style, which liked mood and close observation. This piece lives at the Victoria and Albert Museum. museum: Victoria and Albert Museum
The drawing features four men gathered around a covered basket, one standing with his hands clasped behind his back, alongside a detailed pencil study of those clasped hands. It is part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who worked extensively in British India and later in Macau. Chinnery, a British artist active from the late 18th to mid-19th century, gained prominence as a portraitist in Calcutta before relocating to Macau in 1825.
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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