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   Hodges
   William
   W. H. ;
   3 times: 1: N. N. (?-1777) in 1776 ; 2: Lydia Wright (?- c. 1785) in 1784 ; 3: N. N. (?-1797) in 1785
   
   1744 in London
   1797
   Brixham, Devonshire
   iron smith
   
   drawing by William Shipley (1715-1803), mid1760s landscape painter Richard Wilson (1714 -1782), where he met Thomas Jones (1xxx-1xxx)
   United Kingdom
   James Cook (1728-1779): Voyage South Pole 1777 ; Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) ; Travels in India 1793 & Select views India (1785-1788) ;
   British Admiralty (Cook's exped.) ; Warren Hastings (1732-1818) gen. governor of Bengal (1778) ; Royal Academy (1789) ; East India Company
   artist, naturalist, and ethnologist -> Georg Forster ; astronomer William Wales ; engraver William Woollett ; engraver Thomas Morris ; engraver Thomas Medland ; James Sowerby (1757-1822) ;
   landscape, topographical, geographical, and ethnological pen sketching, watercolour painting, oil painting, and aquatint ; theater backdrop painting ;
   www.rmg.co.uk/upload/package/30/explore.php ; www.kamat.com/database/content/landscapes/william_hodges.htm
   National Maritime Museum, Greenwich: www.rmg.co.uk/upload/package/30/home.php ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hodges ;
   AKL 73 2012: 468 ; ThB 17 1924: 172 ; W. H. Travels India (1780-3) 1794 ; B. Smith: English Plein-Air Painting, in: Art Hist 6: 2 (1983) ; Stuebe: Life & Works 1979 ; DNB ; Pinault 1991 ; A. L. Kaeppler et al: James Cook & Entdeckung der Südsee (2009: 57, 92 & 114ff.) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; G. Quilley, in: J. Hist. Geography 43 (2014): 72ff. ;
   Landscape expedition artist aboard "HMS Resolution" 1772-5. expeditions to Russia (St. Petersburg in 1790), India (1780-85), Germany, Tahiti, Easter Island, and Antarctic. Early cloud & iceberg studies. See also https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/services/library/collections/cook-voyages.html .

Further Place of Activity: Germany, Russia, India, Tahiti, Easter Island, and Antarctic.
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