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William Hodges: A View of Chinsura, the Dutch Settlement, in Bengal   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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William Hodges  (1744–1797)  wikidata:Q730841 s:en:Author:William Hodges q:en:William Hodges
 
William Hodges
Description British explorer and painter
Date of birth/death 28 October 1744 Edit this at Wikidata 6 March 1797 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Brixham (Devonshire)
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London, Derby, Bengalen
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artist QS:P170,Q730841
Title
A View of Chinsura, the Dutch Settlement, in Bengal
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
Description
English: This is plate 28 from William Hodges' 'Select Views in India'. Hodges travelled past the Dutch settlement at Chinsura during his 1781/82 tour of Bengal. Located on the river Ganges, Chinsura had been settled by the Dutch in the previous century. Hodges wrote: "This is the residence of the Dutch Governor and his Council. There is a fort and within that the factories of the Dutch East-India Company in this part of India. Chiunsura is remarkable for the pleasantness of its situation and its healthiness."
Depicted place Chinsurah
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
X307(28)
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https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000307u00028000.html

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/calcutta/chinsura/chinsura.html
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