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The Rocks of Colgong   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
George Hunt  (1796–1843)  wikidata:Q28856974
 
Alternative names
G. Hunt
Description British printmaker, publisher and illustrator
Date of birth/death 1796 Edit this at Wikidata 1843 Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1820 Edit this at Wikidata–1845 Edit this at Wikidata
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London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q28856974
After Charles Ramus Forrest  (1786–1827)  wikidata:Q69686100
 
Alternative names
Cha. Forrest,; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ramus Forrest; C. R. Forrest
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 1786 Edit this at Wikidata 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Windsor Edit this at Wikidata Chatham Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q69686100
Title
The Rocks of Colgong
Object type print
object_type QS:P31,Q11060274
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The Rocks of Colgong

This is plate 7 from Charles Ramus Forrest's 'A Picturesque tour along the rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India'. Forrest was an East India Company official who made several excursions along the great rivers, producing drawings "attentively copied from nature, and in many instances coloured on the spot, ... while the magic effects of the scenes represented were still impressed on [his] mental vision."

On 2 December 1807, Forrest set out from Calcutta. After twenty days, the Rajmahal hills came into view. Forrest wrote that the "Ganges, having its sources is a very mountainous region, is subject to periodocal, vernal and autumnal floods, and its bed being a very rich alluvial soil, is constantly changing by the force and rapidity of the current. Some trifling accident generally commences this deviation".

During his voyages in the upper provinces, Forrest had himself seen banks and cliffs some 50 or 60 feet tall collapse into hundreds of disparate rocky masses, plunging into the river below. The rocks of Colgong owed their structure a more gradual change. "A Fakeer, or wandering mendicant friar, occasionally takes up his abode on one of these rocks," Forrest noted.
Depicted place Kahalgaon
Date 1824
date QS:P571,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium lithograph
medium QS:P186,Q15123870
Dimensions height: 33.5 cm (13.1 in); width: 27.2 cm (10.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,33.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,27.2U174728
institution QS:P195,Q23308
Accession number
X757(7)
Place of creation London
Credit line British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections
Source/Photographer https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019xzz000000757u00007000.html
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