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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
An Indian village is a 13 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows a thatched hut and bigger village buildings in the background. The scene is set near a gully, with a log bridge crossing it. The drawing gives a glimpse into village life, with the simple bridge and hut showing how people lived. The village buildings in the background look more substantial than the hut. This suggests that the village had some wealth or importance. The artist included many details, like the log bridge. You can learn more about this style by looking at the technique: cross-hatching.
The drawing depicts a thatched hut with additional village structures visible in the background, while a log bridge spans a gully in the foreground. Part of an album containing 175 sketches made in China and India, it was bequeathed in 1928 as part of a collection of 93 drawings by George Chinnery. Chinnery, born in London in 1774, worked as a portraitist before relocating to India in 1802, later settling in Calcutta where he became a prominent artist before moving to Macau in 1825.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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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