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- Title:
- A View of the Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar at Secundrii
- Former Title(s):
- A View of the Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, at Secundru
- Date:
- 1786
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 22 × 29 1/2 inches (55.9 × 74.9 cm), Plate: 18 3/4 × 24 5/8 inches (47.6 × 62.5 cm), Image: 16 1/2 × 23 1/4 inches (41.9 × 59.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "IR304/2"
Watermark: J Whatman 1794
Lettered below image, lower left: "Drawn on the Spot & Painted by Hodges."; lower right: "Engraved by Browne."; lower center: "Published May 1st. 1786, by W. Hodges, Queen Street, May Fair, London."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.22.2
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:44656
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William Hodges, RA (1744-1797) (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
John Crowley, Imperial landscapes, Britains's global visual culture 1745-1820 , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2011, pp. 179-80, fig. 206, N8214.5 G7 C76 2011 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
Isabel Combs Stuebe, Life and works of William Hodges, , Garland Publishing, Inc., New York, 1979, pp. xx, 274-75, no. 403, fig. 244, NJ18 H646 S75 1979 (YCBA) [YCBA]