The Ghauts at Benares
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The Ghauts at Benares is a 1787 landscape painting by the British artist William Hodges. It depicts the ceremonial ghats on the River Ganges at Benares in Northern India. Having made his name by accom
William Hodges The Ghauts of Benares 03 210 Royal Academy of Arts
William Hodges
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William Hodges was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, incl
The Ghauts at Benares
…The Ghauts at Benares is a 1787 landscape painting by the British artist William Hodges. It depicts the ceremonial ghats on the River Ganges at Benares (now known as Varanasi) in Northern India. Having made his name by accompanying the…
William Hodges, portrait by George Dance the Younger
Hodges' painting of HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure in Matavai Bay, Tahiti
Man of Easter Island, 1776 (British Museum)
A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout, 1776