12
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Figures ascending a staircase, a pig, a cow and two calves is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is by George Chinnery. It's a work from the Romanticism movement. The drawing shows a scene with animals and people. It features a cow, two calves, and a pig, as well as a woman and a servant. The woman is accompanied by a servant holding a parasol as she mounts stairs. To learn more about the style and techniques used in this drawing, look up the technique of cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a Macanese woman ascending a staircase accompanied by a servant holding a parasol, alongside sketches of a cow with two tethered calves and a pig. Part of an album containing 179 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a collection of 93 works by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist and landscape painter before relocating to India and later settling in Macau in 1825, where he remained until his death in 1852.
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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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