A Village Scene in India [verso]
1814/1824
Artist, British, 1774 - 1852
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 17.1 x 25.9 cm (6 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1995.52.20.b
Associated Artworks
A Village Hut in India [recto]
George Chinnery
1814
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Leger Galleries Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, March 1988-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1993
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 38.
1996
Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996 (recto only).
Inscriptions
the artist's inscriptions are in Gurney shorthand; lower left in pen and black ink: (the head of the figure looking down and not at the child would be better) the artist's inscriptions are in Gurney shorthand; upper left verso in pen and black ink: (this is very ... similar to the original as it was when I sketched it); lower left verso in pen and black ink: (figures the right size); lower center verso in pen and black ink: (earth and grass, repeated twice); lower right verso in pen and black ink: (road); by later hand, upper left verso faintly in graphite: Chinnery; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 27
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Wikidata ID
Q64571307