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Description: | Watercolour of the house of Charles Boddam in Chhapra, Bihar, by an anonymous artist working in the Patna/Chapra style, c. 1810. Inscribed on back in ink: 'East view of the house at Chuprah inhabited by Charles Boddam Esqr. from April 1794 to April 1806'.
This drawing shows the house as a bungalow with three flights of steps leading to a verandah with Tuscan columns, two small cupolas, or dovecotes, on the roof and a European couple standing at the door. Charles Boddam went to Bengal in the East India Company's service as a writer in 1780. In May 1793 he was posted to Saran District as Judge of Dewanny Adawlut and Magistrate; he died at Fort William on 13th August 1811. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Anonymous | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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