A Village Scene in India [verso]

1814/1824

George Chinnery

Artist, British, 1774 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 17.1 x 25.9 cm (6 3/4 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.20.b


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

Wikidata ID

Q64571307


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