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George Chinnery (British 1774-1852)
“Studies of Figures Grinding Grain and Oxen with Cart”
two sheets mounted together, depicting studies of Indian village life, the upper drawing shows two male figures seated outdoors beside a grain-grinding bowl and hookah beneath a colonnaded veranda, the lower study features oxen and a cart with a kneeling figure tending to the animals, drawn with Chinnery’s precise, rhythmic line and subtle shading; executed during the artist’s years in India, these intimate sketches capture the daily labors and gestures of rural life with immediacy and sympathy
Ink on paper, two sheets on one mount
4 1/2″ x 6 3/4″ larger sheet
Provenance: The Old Print Shop, New York
Sotheby & Co., London, Modern Drawings, 5/291969, Lot 48
purchased by Mrs. T. Chubb (Sotheby’s label and receipt verso);
Estate of Sally G. Chubb, Bernardsville, New Jersey

Estimate: $1500 - $2500