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This is an image of a line drawing showing a thatched-roof structure at an angle. In the background, two figures are near another structure to the left. The scene includes goats near a round basket. The drawing features delicate and fluid line work with varying thickness for texture. The color palette is monochrome, ranging from sepia to dark black. The composition focuses on ground level structures and activities, with vegetation in the background. The simplicity of materials adds to the rustic charm of the scene.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Village Hut in India [recto]
George Chinnery
- Date
- 1814/1824
- Medium
- pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 17.1 x 25.9 cm (6 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1995.52.20.a
- Credit line
- Gift of William B. O'Neal
- Time span
- 1801 to 1825
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- British
- Rustic
- India
- architecture
- landscape
Provenance
(Leger Galleries Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, March 1988-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.
Inscription
the artist's inscriptions are in Gurney shorthand; upper left in pen and black ink: (this is very ... similar to the original as it was when I sketched it); lower left in pen and black ink: (figures the right size); lower center in pen and black ink: (earth and grass, repeated twice); lower right in pen and black ink: (road); by later hand, upper left faintly in graphite: Chinnery; by later hand, lower left in graphite: 27; the artist's inscriptions are in Gurney shorthand; lower left verso in pen and black ink: (the head of the figure looking down and not at the child would be better)
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