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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Cattle, with figure sketches is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, depicting Cattle, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts two cows with a calf, accompanied by faint sketches of a boatwoman and child, as well as a group of standing figures. It is part of a volume containing 179 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau by George Chinnery. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist before moving to India in 1802 and later settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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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