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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
AA Chinese moneychanger seated at a table, with a standing figure is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from the 1800s. It shows a moneychanger at his table. Strings of coins lie there. One coin is in his hands. A customer stands beside him. George Chinnery made this during his stay in China. The drawing shows daily life in a busy port. Strings of coins were common then. People used these for trade. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A seated Chinese moneychanger examines a string of coins at his table, while a standing customer waits beside him in a scene drawn in Macau. The work is one of 93 sheets in an album of sketches made by George Chinnery in Macau and its surroundings. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist in India before settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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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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