Three pigs at a trough
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
George Chinnery made this careful drawing in 1825. Three pigs crowd a low trough, heads down, ears flopping. A wooden post and a pail sit beside them. It’s a quiet scene, but the artist catches each pig’s shape with steady lines. The drawing shows how pigs look when they eat. You can almost hear the snuffling. Look up the technique called cross-hatching next.
