- Title:
The Fort of Bidjegur
- Former Title(s):
An Indian Landscape with a Fort on a Hill [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
View of the fort of Beijegur in the East Indies [1786, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1784
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 24 1/8 × 40 inches (61.3 × 101.6 cm), Frame: 31 1/4 × 47 × 2 1/4 inches (79.4 × 119.4 × 5.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.42
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.42FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cannon | cliff | fort | fortress | hill | landscape | man | military art | mountain | soldier
- Associated Places:
- India | Jaipur | Varanasi
- 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:278
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Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
William Hodges, RA (1744-1797) (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Company Culture (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-09-16 - 2004-01-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 116-117, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Exhibition Catalogue. 1786. 18th, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 18, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1786, no. 145, N5054 A53 14-28 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Morna O'Neill, Company Culture:, British Artists and the East India Company 1770-1830: October 16, 2003-January 11, 2004 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, no. 19, V 1199 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Geoff Quilley, 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 , , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004, pp. 164-65, no. 58, NJ18 H646 +W55 2004 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 26, no. 34, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Isabel Combs Stuebe, Life and works of William Hodges, , Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1979, pp. xv, 216, no. 226, fig. 153, NJ18 H646 S75 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Beth Fowkes Tobin, Colonizing nature, the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 , Academy, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2005, p. 137, fig. 23, PR129 T76 T63 2005 (YCBA) Also available online - Project Muse (ORBIS) [YCBA]