19
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A seated Parsi, and a soldier is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows two figures side by side: a seated Parsi man deep in a newspaper, and a soldier standing straight with a musket. Both are quick sketches in pencil, catching small human moments. The Parsi man wears the usual headgear and seems lost in print, while the soldier looks ready but relaxed. The artist likely knew them—maybe the Parsi is Hurjeebhoy Rustomjee, a friend who posed before. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum for more sketches by George Chinnery.
A pencil sketch by George Chinnery depicts a seated Parsi man, wearing traditional headgear, engrossed in reading a newspaper, possibly a study for a finished drawing of his friend Hurjeebhoy Rustomjee. The drawing also includes a figure of a standing soldier from the Portuguese garrison in Macau, holding a musket over his shoulder. This work is part of a volume containing 469 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The drawing was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 works by Chinnery.
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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