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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
An Indian woman holding a child is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts an Indian woman in traditional dress holding a small child by the shoulder. The work is part of a volume containing 466 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 Chinnery drawings. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China from 1802 to 1852, is known for portraits and drawings of local figures, including Tanka boatwomen.
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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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