William Hodges: A Dissertation on the Prototypes of Architectures, Hindoo, Moorish, and Gothic
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content: FSA A2012.06
name: label: Creator
content: Hodges, William, 1744-1797
place: label: Place
content: India
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content: Bengal (India)
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content: Bihar (India)
creator: label: Creator
content: Hodges, William, 1744-1797
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: In his youth, William Hodges was apprenticed, for seven years, to the leading landscape painter, Richard Wilson. Hodges became well known for the sketches and paintings he produced as James Cook's appointed draughtsman during his second expedition to the Pacific Ocean (1772-1775). Form 1778 to 1783 he visited India as a professional painter under the protection of Warren Hastings, The Governor General of the East Indian Company. The most productive period of his Indian sojourn was between 1781 to 1783, when he toured the regions of Bengal and Bihar producing mostly landscape paintings for leading British figures. Hodges Disseration, published in 1787 and dedicated to Hastings, originates from material collected during his Indian tour. The painter's work gives shape and color to landscapes of the non-European world, creating a visual and explicit connection between these unfamiliar territories and the British audience.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Book (bound in brown Morocco leather with considerable repairs, 57 x 85 cm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1787
container: label: Container
content: Item 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Elizabeth Moynihan, 2012.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2012.06
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Books
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: One folio in a map drawer.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One book by William Hodges published in 1787.