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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sketches of a figure writing at a pedestal table, and a figure lighting a pipe is a 2 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, depicting Writing, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing from 1828 by George Chinnery. It shows two quick sketches of men in different activities: one writing at a table, one lighting a pipe. The style fits Romanticism, where artists often captured everyday moments with feeling. One sketch shows a Western man at a tripod table, pen in hand. The other shows a Chinese man lighting a long pipe from a small fire. Check out more drawings by George Chinnery.
A drawing by George Chinnery from an album of 406 sketches made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal depicts a Western man seated at a tripod table writing with a quill pen, with a separate sketch showing a Chinese man lighting a long pipe from a small fire on a table. The album, containing 93 drawings by Chinnery, was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist in India before 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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