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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Hands folded on the back of a chair is a 20 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing is called "Hands folded on the back of a chair". It's a study of clasped hands on a chair. The drawing has some extra sketches on the back, including two of a seated Western woman. It also has an inscription that refers to Joseph Jardine. To learn more about the style of this drawing, look up the movement: Romanticism.
A study by George Chinnery shows clasped hands resting on the back of a chair, with two quick sketches of a seated Western woman on the chair’s back. The inscription refers to Joseph Jardine, a nephew of the founder of Jardine, Matheson & Co., who arrived in China in 1843. The drawing is part of a volume containing 406 works made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. It was later bequeathed in 1928 as part of an album of 93 Chinnery drawings.
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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