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WD550
- Record Id:
- 032-003267986
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003267986
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x001153
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD550
- Title:
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Mosque near Ghazipur (U.P.). Artist(s): Hodges, William (1744-1797), after
- Scope & Content:
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Mosque near Ghazipur (U.P.). c.1781.
Inscribed on back in pencil: ‘Mosque at Gazipoor.’
Pencil and wash; 13 by 17.5 ins.
Purchased 22 January 1959.
Note: This appears to be an original sketch by Hodges for his aquatint, 'A Mosque at Gazipoor', plate 31, ‘Select views in India,’ various additions and alterations in the latter indicating that the present drawing is not a copy but one of the original sketches on which the aquatint was subsequently based. In the aquatint a figure has been added in the thatched hut to the right of the mosque, a small palm tree inserted on the far right and the large tree which, in the sketch, obscures the further minaret, reduced in size and shifted so as to give a clear view of the architecture. In addition, traces of pencil outlines are still visible, suggesting that when applying wash Hodges introduced modifications. In his journal Hodges refers to his visit to Ghazipur in 1781: 'About two miles inland from the river are the remains of a serai; and nearly adjoining, tombs, built at the same period as the palace. These buildings are in a fine taste of Moorish architecture, and in very good repair. Views of both the palace and tombs are exhibited to the public in a work which I published, containing Views in India' ‘(Travels in India, 47).’
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003267986
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003267986
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1781
- End Date:
- 1800
- Date Range:
- 1781-1800
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: pencil; wash
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 613
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Hodges, William, artist, 1744-1797,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000081362433,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56866547 - Subjects:
- Architecture
Mosques - Places:
- Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India