8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese figures is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Two sketches sit side by side on one sheet. One shows three men around a basket. The other shows a single man standing. Chinnery made these in 1836 while he was in China. On the back he drew blacksmith tools and a seated figure by another basket. It’s a quick, lively look at daily life. The Romantic movement often did that—caught moments, not finished portraits. Check out George Chinnery next.
The drawing consists of two sketches: one depicting three men gathered around a basket, and another showing a single standing man. On the reverse, an ink drawing illustrates blacksmiths' tools alongside a figure seated beside a large basket. Part of an album containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal, the work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery.
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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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