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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Five drawings of figures and dogs is a 19 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
These five pencil drawings show people and dogs in everyday scenes. One man sits with two waterpots. Another group stands on a boat deck. There’s also a person steering a small boat and two quick studies of a dog. Chinnery noted one dog study was his friend Dr. Robert Morrison’s pet. Morrison translated the Bible into Chinese and worked as a missionary. If these drawings catch your eye, look up the technique he used: cross-hatching.
Five drawings by George Chinnery depict a seated man with two waterpots, a group of figures on a boat deck, a single figure steering a small boat, and two studies of a dog, one of which is identified as Dr. Robert Morrison's dog. These works are part of a volume containing 179 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau. The drawings were bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album with 93 drawings by Chinnery. George Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked primarily in India and Macau, establishing himself as a prominent artist in British India before settling in Macau in 1825.
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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