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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
The ruins of a mosque or tomb in India is a 16 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see two tall minarets made of brick standing in a field of rocks and dust. Grass grows between cracks in the stone. A low wall runs between the towers, half-buried in earth. The sketch shows how the ruins weather over time. George Chinnery drew this in India in 1802, when British artists often recorded Indian buildings. His lines are careful, almost like a map. Try looking up Chinnery, George.
The drawing depicts two minarets and remnants of masonry situated atop a rocky elevation within a rugged landscape. It is part of an album containing 175 sketches made during travels in China and India. The album was bequeathed in 1928 by James Orange and includes 93 drawings by George Chinnery, who worked extensively as a portraitist and landscape artist in British India and China.
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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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