6
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The hands of a Chinese man holding a line is a 6 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts a Chinese man holding a line, rendered in pencil and ink, with two versions showing the wrist, hand, and sleeve. 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 works by George Chinnery. Chinnery, a British artist active in India and China from 1802 to 1852, specialized in portraits and landscapes before settling in Macau.
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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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