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Artist:George Chinnery (British, London 1774–1852 Macau)
Date:ca. 1808–12
Medium:Watercolor
Dimensions:sheet: 4 15/16 x 6 9/16 in. (12.5 x 16.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2012
Accession Number:2012.84
In the early nineteenth century, the British East India Company’s growing presence in India encouraged London-trained artists to travel to the subcontinent. Chinnery left England in 1802 to seek portrait commissions in Madras, Calcutta, and Dacca (present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh). This lively sketch of a small Indian temple, falling into ruin and buffeted by a passing squall, likely dates to his residence in Dacca between 1808 and 1812. In that period the artist stayed with the British East India representative Sir Charles D’Oyly; this work was once housed in an album assembled by a collector who knew both D’Oyly and Chinnery.
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