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 / [edited by Geoff Quilley, John Bonehill].

Date:
2004
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Publication/Creation

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press for the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2004.

Physical description

viii, 212 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm

Contents

William Hodges: artist of empire / Geoff Quilley -- 'This hapless adventurer': Hodges and the London art world / John Bonehill -- Hodges and attribution / Charles Greig -- 'Philanthropy seems natural to mankind': Hodges and Captain Cook's second voyage to the South Seas / David Bindman -- Hodges as anthropologist and historian / Nicholas Thomas -- Hodges's visual genealogy for colonial India, 1780-95 / Natasha Eaton -- The artist's 'I' in Hodges's Travels in India / Beth Fowkes Tobin -- Hodges and Indian architecture / Giles Tillotson -- 'The consequences of war' in the winter of 1794-95 / Harriet Guest -- CATALOGUE -- PART ONE: MAKING PACIFIC HISTORY -- The maritime context, 1768-75 / Pieter Van Der Merwe -- Hodges's post-voyage work / John Bonehill -- PART TWO: PICTURING THE HISTORY OF INDIA -- Hodges and India / Geoff Quilley -- PART THREE: REPRESENTING BRITISHNESS -- Hodges's British subjects / Geoff Quilley -- APPENDIX: Hodges's catalogue description of The effects of Peace and The consequences of War.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-208) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Hodges)
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ISBN

  • 030010376X
  • 0948065583