Cattle Resting in a Mountainous Landscape, Bengal

ca. 1808–12

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with stopping out, touches of gouache (bodycolor) and gum
Dimensions: sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 15/16 in. (12.4 x 20.2 cm)
Collection no.: 2009.341
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

George Chinnery. Cattle Resting in a Mountainous Landscape, Bengal. George Chinnery; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2009. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Cattle Resting in a Mountainous Landscape, Bengal — George Chinnery. ca. 1808–12.

Medium: Watercolor over graphite with stopping out, touches of gouache (bodycolor) and gum. Dimensions: sheet: 4 7/8 x 7 15/16 in. (12.4 x 20.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2009.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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