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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Village huts, Bengal is an 8 by George Chinnery, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This soft pencil drawing shows a few simple huts with thatched roofs in Bengal. A village guard sits by a tree, wrapped in a shawl. A dog rests near him, and a child walks past. George Chinnery spent years in India. He sketched daily life, not grand scenes. His lines are quick but full of feeling. He drew like Rembrandt used light. Try this at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The drawing depicts thatched village huts in Bengal, featuring a chowkidar (village watchman) and other figures alongside a dog. 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 comprising 93 drawings by George Chinnery.
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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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