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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Overgrown ruins is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a drawing of old ruins with plants growing all over them. The ruins have an archway and a house, both covered in green. This drawing is interesting because it shows how nature can take over old buildings, and the artist used a lot of detail to draw the plants and stones. You can learn more about this style by looking into the technique: cross-hatching.
A drawing by George Chinnery depicts a ruined archway and an adjacent ruined house, both overgrown with vegetation. The work is part of an album containing 175 sketches made during his travels in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange, originally comprising 93 drawings by Chinnery.
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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