8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A hand and sleeve, and a soldier is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is called A hand and sleeve, and a soldier. It's a work by George Chinnery. The drawing shows two main things: a left hand coming out of a sleeve, and a soldier with a musket. The soldier is from the Portuguese garrison. To learn more about the style used in this drawing, look up the technique of cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a left hand emerging from a sleeve alongside a soldier from the Portuguese garrison, who holds a musket against his shoulder. It is one of 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, later included in an album of 93 works by George Chinnery bequeathed in 1928. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China, settled in Macau in 1825, where he documented the local community and its interactions with European traders.
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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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