Details
William Hodges, R.A. (1744-1797)
A View of Calcutta taken from Fort William
35¾ x 60¼in. (90.7 x 153cm.)
A View of Calcutta taken from Fort William
35¾ x 60¼in. (90.7 x 153cm.)
Provenance
Warren Hastings, Daylesford House, 1793 and by descent to his stepson General Sir Charles Imhof; sale Farebrother, Clark and Lyl, 22-26 Aug. 1853 (last day), lot 917 (¨21 to Trolly, presumably on behalf of Harmon Grisewood who purchased Daylesford House in 1855)
R.N. Byass, Daylesford House
Edward Baring Young, Daylesford House from 1855 and bequeathed to The Kingham Hill Trust, 1928 and included in a list of pictures taken from Daylesford by the Trust in 1936
R.N. Byass, Daylesford House
Edward Baring Young, Daylesford House from 1855 and bequeathed to The Kingham Hill Trust, 1928 and included in a list of pictures taken from Daylesford by the Trust in 1936
Literature
W. Hodges, Travels in India During the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783, London, 1793, p. 14
Sir C. Lawson, The Private Life of Warren Hastings, London 1895, p. 150
I.C. Stuebe, William Hodges and Warren Hastings: A Study in Eighteenth Century Patronage in the Burlington Magazine, CVX, Oct. 1973, pp. 659, 665, fig. 30
I.C. Stuebe, The Life and Works of William Hodges, New York and London, 1979, pp. xiv, 10, 56, 219-20, cat. no. 236, fig. 160
J. Mahajan, The Raj Landscape: British Views of Indian Cities, South Godstone and New Delhi, 1988, pp. 51, 55
Sir C. Lawson, The Private Life of Warren Hastings, London 1895, p. 150
I.C. Stuebe, William Hodges and Warren Hastings: A Study in Eighteenth Century Patronage in the Burlington Magazine, CVX, Oct. 1973, pp. 659, 665, fig. 30
I.C. Stuebe, The Life and Works of William Hodges, New York and London, 1979, pp. xiv, 10, 56, 219-20, cat. no. 236, fig. 160
J. Mahajan, The Raj Landscape: British Views of Indian Cities, South Godstone and New Delhi, 1988, pp. 51, 55
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1787, no. 68
Engraved
by W. Byrne in W. Hodges, op. cit. opposite p. 14
and visible in P. Martini's engraving of the Royal Academy exhibition of 1787 after a drawing by H. Ramberg
and visible in P. Martini's engraving of the Royal Academy exhibition of 1787 after a drawing by H. Ramberg