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A Village Scene in India [verso]
![A Village Scene in India [verso], by George Chinnery, ink, 1819](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/george-chinnery--a-village-scene-in-india-verso--a3b8d6327e2fa0d5-w1024.webp)
A Village Scene in India [verso] is an ink drawing by the Romanticist artist George Chinnery. It dates from 1819 and is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art.
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- Inscribed: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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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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