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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Thatched village dwellings, Bengal is a 10 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows simple village huts in Bengal. The walls are mud and bamboo. Thatched roofs sag a little. Small umbrella shapes stick out of the walls. That’s not a mistake—it’s a feature. Those are *chattars*, tiny shade covers built right into the clay. Locals used them to block sun between monsoon rains. If you like this old-school look, check out Chinnery, George.
The drawing depicts thatched village dwellings in Bengal, known as banglas, constructed from mud, bamboo, and thatch, with chattars (umbrellas) inserted into the walls. 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, originally containing 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who lived from 1774 to 1852.
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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