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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Studies of cats, and of a hand holding a pole is a 20 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery drew this in 1844. It’s two quick sketches of a cat crouching low, plus two studies of a hand and arm gripping a pole. The linework is loose but sure—you can feel the weight in the hand’s grip. Done in pen or pencil, it belongs to the Romantic movement. That style often focused on everyday moments like this, not grand scenes. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The sheet contains two studies of a crouching cat and two sketches of a forearm and hand gripping a pole, part of a larger album of 179 drawings made in Bengal and Macau by George Chinnery. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, who had acquired it as a collection of 93 works by Chinnery.
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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