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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Ruinous village dwellings, Bengal is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a drawing of a ruined village in Bengal with a thatched roof and palm trees. The drawing shows a goat in the scene, which adds a sense of life to the otherwise deserted village. This style of drawing is similar to ones that use a technique called cross-hatching, stippling, which creates detailed shading and texture, and to learn more about this, look up the technique: cross-hatching, stippling.
The drawing depicts the ruins of a Bengal village building, its thatched roof partially collapsed, accompanied by palm trees and a goat. It is part of an album containing 175 sheets of sketches made in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and includes 93 drawings by George 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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