1820
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Antiquities of Dacca is a 1820 ink by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a group of people in a busy scene, drawn with quick, messy lines. The figures are simple—just outlines and shading with no color. Some look like they’re standing, others sitting, all packed together in a tight space. The background has faint buildings and what might be trees or ruins. The artist used a technique called *cross-hatching*—lots of crisscrossed lines to shade the drawing. It gives the whole thing a rough, sketchy feel, like it was drawn fast. Next, look up cross-hatching to see how this technique works in other art.
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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