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William Hodges: A View of a Farm-Yard in the Kingdom of 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
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A View of a Farm-Yard in the Kingdom of Bengal
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
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This is plate 16 from William Hodges' book 'Select Views in India'. When Hodges was in India in the 1780s, Bengal was a flourishing kingdom. Calcutta and Murshidabad were its major cities and British life was focused around these two urban centres. The countryside, however, remained the backbone of Bengali life and customs. Hodges wrote that this plate "is intended to show the manners of the common people as the others are for their cultivated arts and their historical events".

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