- Title:
- The Marmalong Bridge [2015, YCBA]
- Former Title(s):
- Extensive View of the Marmalong, Previously the Armenian, Bridge [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1783
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 27 x 36 inches (68.6 x 91.4 cm), Frame: 34 3/4 × 42 3/4 × 2 1/2 inches (88.3 × 108.6 × 6.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, lower center: “From the collection of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings | and almost certainly commissioned by him. | From the collections of Mr. Grisewood, Mr Byass, | Mr. Charles Baring Young and Mr. Arthur Young, all | of whom successively owned Daylesford House after it | was sold following the death of Warren Hasting’s widow | in 1853. In 1936 the paintings were left by Mr. Arthur | Young to the Kingham Hill Trust. | Probably bought by Mr. Grisewood in the Warren Hastings | Sale of 1853.”; lower left: “Pitt & Scott Ltd | London | G.[handwritten] 779 | #228 | [typed] 0704”
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.3.8
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1974.3.8FR
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | bridge (built work) | costume | genre subject | jug | landscape | leisure | long gun | mountains | people | river
- Associated Places:
- Adyar | Asia | Bharat | India | Madras
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:169
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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]
John McAleer, Picturing India People, Places, and the World of the East India Company, The British Library, London, p. 82, fig. 3.4, 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. 24, 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. 140-41, no. 42, NJ18 H646 +W55 2004 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Isabel Combs Stuebe, Life and works of William Hodges, , Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1979, pp. xviii, 248, no. 325, fig. 209, NJ18 H646 S75 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]