William Hodges, 1744–1797, British, View of the Island of Jangerah at Sultanganj with Figures in the Foreground, ca. 1781
- Title:
- View of the Island of Jangerah at Sultanganj with Figures in the Foreground
- Date:
- ca. 1781
- Medium:
- Gray wash and pen and black/brown ink over graphite on laid paper, laid down on 19th Century wash mount
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 5/8 x 25 7/16in. (49.8 x 64.6cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Initialled, in pen and brown ink, UR: MH2; in graphite UL: CP; in graphite, LL of mount: near[?] Boghpoor Ganges; in graphite, LC: 15.
J. Whatman.
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1736
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Geoff Quilley, William Hodges, 1744-1797 : The art of exploration : catalogue to the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 5 July-21 November, 2004 and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 27 January-24 April 2005 , , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004, p. 141, NJ18 H646 +W55 2004 (YCBA)
Isabel Combs Stuebe, Life and works of William Hodges, , Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1979, pp. xxi, 277, no. 410, fig. 248, NJ18 H646 S75 1979 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10466
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