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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese men at a cooking stove, and of a pig is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made a drawing of Chinese men at a cooking stove and a pig in 1825. It’s part of a group of sketches he made in China. The work shows everyday life with simple tools. The museum keeps two inked-in drawings of figures around a food stall. There are also two pencil sketches of Chinese people and one inked pig study. It’s a quick, lively look at a moment in time. Check out George Chinnery next.
The drawing comprises two inked scenes of figures gathered around a food stall and two pencil sketches of Chinese individuals, alongside an ink study of a pig, all contained within a volume of 406 works created in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. Part of an album of 93 drawings by George Chinnery bequeathed in 1928, the piece reflects Chinnery’s broader body of work, which spans his career from London to his later years in Macau. Chinnery, who began as a miniature portraitist in London and later gained prominence in India, moved to Macau in 1825, where he documented the region’s diverse…
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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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