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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A priest seen from behind is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made this drawing of a Roman Catholic priest in 1825. It’s a work on paper, just one figure seen from behind. The priest wears a black biretta, a square cap. This was drawn during the Romantic era. Chinnery spent years in India and China, so he knew how to capture people in quick, lively lines. Look up the technique called cross-hatching next.
The drawing depicts a Roman Catholic priest wearing a biretta, shown from behind. It is part of an album of 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and contains 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who worked in British India and later in Macau.
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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