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Drawing

19th century (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A drawing from an album containing 175 sheets of sketches made in China and India. The drawing is in pencil and wash and depicts a landscape with a thatched cottage at the left hand side and trees on the right. On the reverse is a scene in India showing two women outside a thatched building.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pencil and wash drawing on paper
Brief description
Drawing by George Chinnery, depicting a landscape, from an album of 175 sheets of sketches made in India and China, pencil and wash on paper, India, 19th century
Physical description
A drawing from an album containing 175 sheets of sketches made in China and India. The drawing is in pencil and wash and depicts a landscape with a thatched cottage at the left hand side and trees on the right. On the reverse is a scene in India showing two women outside a thatched building.
Dimensions
  • Volume height: 22.5in
  • Volume width: 15.375in
  • Sheet height: 6.625in
  • Sheet width: 9.125in
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Credit line
Bequeathed by James Orange
Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Collection
Accession number
E.2059-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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