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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A stooping Chinese figure is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a simple pencil drawing of a Chinese man bending over a basket. It’s an old sketch from 1825 to 1852, done by George Chinnery. The artist spent decades in China and India, so he knew these scenes well. The Victoria and Albert Museum calls it just that—a sketch of a man stooping over a basket. That’s all it shows, nothing extra. Check out more work by the same hand: George Chinnery.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a Chinese man bending over a basket, part of an album containing 406 sketches made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of a collection of 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist in India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he continued to produce drawings of local figures.
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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