12
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Two sketches of groups of Chinese figures is a 12 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Chinnery made quick sketches of daily life in China. This drawing shows two scenes: a barber cutting hair and two men playing a game watched by a standing man. He worked in the 1840s, a time when British artists traveled abroad for new subjects. These sketches were done over ten years, not all at once. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum for more drawings like this.
Two sketches by George Chinnery depict a barber attending a seated customer and two men playing a game on the ground while a third observes. The works are part of a volume containing 406 drawings made in Macau, Guangzhou, and Bengal. The album, bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, originally included 93 drawings by 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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