- 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
- Materials & Techniques:
- 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
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:125
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 118-119, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Letters of Warren Hastings to his wife, Athenaeum, no, 4092, March 31, 1906, p. 386, Online Resource available through the British Periodicals database [ORBIS]
John McAleer, Picturing India People, Places, and the World of the East India Company, The British Library, London, p. 79, fig. 3.2, N8214.5.I5 M43 2017 (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. 26, V 1199 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Pratapaditya Pal, From merchants to emperors, British artists and India, 1757-1930 , Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1986, pp. 102, 104, fig. 97, N8214.5 I5 P25 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, pp. 150-51, fig. 138, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (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. 185-6, no. 70, , NJ18 H646 +W55 2004 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Geoff Quilley, William Hodges, art and empire, Geoff Quilley shows how the work of Hodges, official artist on Cook's second voyage and subject of a major exhibition opening this month at the National Maritime Museum, sheds light on perceptions of the British Empire , History Today, vol. 54, no. 7, July 2004, p. 47, Online resource See Orbis; hard copy also available at SML [D1 H78 + OVERSIZE] [ORBIS]
Romita Ray, Under the banyan tree, relocating the picturesque in British India , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, pp. 218-19, fig. 95, N8214.5.I5 R39 2013 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Isabel Combs Stuebe, Life and works of William Hodges, , Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1979, pp. xvii, 62-63, 228-29, no. 263, fig. 178, NJ18 H646 S75 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Isabel Combs Stuebe, William Hodges and Warren Hastings : a study in eighteenth-century patronage, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 115, October 1973, pp. 6558, 660, 662, 664, 665, fig. 40, N1 +B87 v. 115:3 Also avaialble online (ORBIS) [ORBIS]
Giles Tillotson, Artificial empire, the Indian landscapes of William Hodges , Curzon Press, Richmond [England], 2000, p. 118, fig. 44, NJ18 H646 T55 2000 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale Center for British Art, William Hodges, 1744-1797, the art of exploration : Yale Center for British Art, 27 January-24 April 2005 , New Haven, January 27-April 24, 2005, V1422 (YCBA) [YCBA]