- Title:
Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Col-gon Rocks [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Former Title(s):
Mrs Hastings near the Rocks of Colgong [2005, The Art of the Exploration, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 50 × 72 inches (127 × 182.9 cm), Frame: 57 1/4 × 77 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (145.4 × 197.5 × 7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscription, on the verso, upper center: "Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | G. [handwritten] 1698 | #216 | [typed] 1685"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1973.1.23
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1973.1.23FR
- Subject Terms:
- barge | boat | canoe | clouds | journey | landscape | meteorology | rainbow | river | rocks (landforms) | science | storm | sunlight | tree | waves (natural events)
- Associated Places:
- Asia | Bhagalpur | Ganges | India | Kahalgaon
- Associated People:
- Hastings, Marian [née Anna Maria Apollonia Chapuset; other married name Marian von Imhoff, Baroness von Imhoff] (1747–1837), wife of Warren Hastings (1732–1818), governor-general of Bengal
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:125
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