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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The head of an elderly Chinese man is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a drawing of an older Chinese man’s head and shoulders. George Chinnery made it in 1839. The man has a beard and faces slightly to the right. It’s a portrait, plain and direct. Only the head and shoulders are shown. You can almost feel the quiet moment Chinnery captured. Take a look at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts the head and shoulders of an elderly Chinese man with a beard, shown in half right profile. It is part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The work was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange as part of an album of 93 drawings by George 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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