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The image shows a rural scene with a low eye-level perspective. A simple brick structure is in the middle distance, with a background suggesting a horizon. It is rendered in black ink with detailed brushstrokes for texture. Two figures and livestock are in the foreground, with foliage and makeshift structures on the right side.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Village Scene in India [verso]
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.b
- 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; lower left in pen and black ink: (the head of the figure looking down and not at the child would be better) the artist's inscriptions are in Gurney shorthand; upper left verso in pen and black ink: (this is very ... similar to the original as it was when I sketched it); lower left verso in pen and black ink: (figures the right size); lower center verso in pen and black ink: (earth and grass, repeated twice); lower right verso in pen and black ink: (road); by later hand, upper left verso faintly in graphite: Chinnery; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 27 …
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