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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The head of a cow is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a careful drawing of a cow’s head and shoulders. George Chinnery made it in 1841, and it sits in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The artist captured the animal’s shape with fine lines, not paint. It’s part of the Romantic era when artists often studied nature closely. If you like this style, look up Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the head and shoulders of a cow in half left profile, contained within a volume of 179 sheets of drawings made in Bengal and Macau. It was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album featuring 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who worked in British India and China from 1796 to 1852. Chinnery, born in London, established himself as a prominent portrait artist in Calcutta before relocating to Macau in 1825, where he continued his work until his death.
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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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