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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese figures and animals is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is called Chinese figures and animals. It was created by George Chinnery. The drawing shows various scenes, including people and animals. It features a scribe, a man and boy with a cow and calf, and other figures with animals like pigs and a dog. To learn more about the style and techniques used in this drawing, look up the technique of cross-hatching.
The drawing consists of six studies by George Chinnery, including two seated men (one identified as a scribe), a man and boy leading a cow and calf, a man carrying a basket, two pigs, and a dog. It is part of a larger album of 179 sheets documenting scenes from Bengal and Macau. The work was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a collection of 93 drawings by Chinnery, who worked extensively in India and China during the early 19th century.
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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