William Hodges 1744-1797
Subtitle: the art of exploration
By: [edited by Geoff Quilley and John Bonehill].
Contributors: Quilley, Geoff.; Bonehill, John.; Hodges, William, 1744-1797.; National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher: Yale University Press for the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Hodges, William, 1744-1797 -- Exhibitions; Hodges, William, 1744-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation; Landscape in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Art of exploration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-208) and index.
Catalogue to the exhibition at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 5 July-21 Nov. 2004, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 27 Jan.-24 Apr. 2005.
Table of contents: title: William Hodges: artist of empire -- Geoff Quilley; title: 'This hapless adventurer': Hodges and the London art world -- John Bonehill; title: Hodges and attribution -- Charles Greig; title: 'Philanthropy seems natural to mankind': Hodges and Captain Cook's second voyage to the South Seas -- David Bindman; title: Hodges as anthropologist and historian -- Nicholas Thomas; title: Hodges's visual genealogy for colonial India, 1780-95 -- Natasha Eaton; title: The artist's 'I' in Hodges's Travels in India -- Beth Fowkes Tobin; title: Hodges and Indian architecture -- Giles Tillotson; title: 'The consequences of war' in the winter of 1794-95 -- Harriet Guest -- CATALOGUE -- PART ONE: MAKING PACIFIC HISTORY; title: The maritime context, 1768-75 -- Pieter Van Der Merwe; title: Hodges's post-voyage work -- John Bonehill -- PART TWO: PICTURING THE HISTORY OF INDIA; title: Hodges and India -- Geoff Quilley -- PART THREE: REPRESENTING BRITISHNESS; title: Hodges's British subjects -- Geoff Quilley -- APPENDIX:; title: Hodges's catalogue description of The effects of Peace and The consequences of War.