8
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Sketches of figures, including a Chinese man with a pole is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a quick sketch on paper by George Chinnery. It shows a boatman standing in a boat, using a long pole to push it along. Around him are two people at a food stall and a priest nearby. Tiny outlines around the boat hint at other boats close by. It’s dated 1834, drawn in ink with loose lines and some shading. The scene feels ordinary but alive, like a moment caught on the water. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more.
An ink drawing by George Chinnery depicts a boatman using a pole, accompanied by two figures at a food stall and a priest, with outlines of boat-dwellings in the background. The work is part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by Chinnery.
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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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