5
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Houses in Canon Lane, The Close, Winchester is a 5 by Somers Clarke, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a simple two-story house with a steep, triangular roof. The walls are plain, and the windows have shutters—some open, some closed. A small porch sits under the front window, and a streetlamp leans near the corner of the building. The drawing is all in pencil, with light shading to show depth. The artist wrote the title and date in the corner: *Houses in Canon Lane, The Close, Winchester, June 1870*. The sketch looks like a quick study of real buildings, not a polished work. If you like this kind of drawing, check out cross-hatching to see how artists build shadows with lines.
A pencil drawing depicts houses along Canon Lane in The Close, Winchester.
Read the full account in the museum source.
George Somers Clarke was an architect and English Egyptologist who worked on the restoration and design of churches and at a number of sites throughout Egypt, notably in El Kab, where he built a mud brick house.
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