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Description: | Pen and ink drawing by Sir Charles D'Oyly, (1781-1845), of the Rajgir Hills near the sacred streams, in Bihar, dated 20th December 1824, from an Album of 80 drawings of views in Bengal and Bihar taken between January 1823 and May 1825. This image is from a group of drawings dated between 18th December 1824 and 2nd January 1825, which were clearly made during a Christmas tour to Gaya when D'Oyly visited his friends George Proctor Beauchamp and Christopher Webb Smith. A few years later D'Oyly and Smith produced two books together; Oriental Ornithology, (Behar Lithographic Press, 1829), and The Feathered Game of Hindostan, (Calcutta, 1830), with illustrations of birds by Smith and landscapes by D'Oyly.
D'Oyly arrived in India in 1797 and spent his first few years in Calcutta as Assistant to the Registrar of the Court of Appeal. He was Collector of Dacca from 1808-18 and was made Opium Agent at Patna in 1821. Whilst at Dacca he met the artist George Chinnery and became his pupil from 1808-12. D'Oyly was a prolific amateur artist who was greatly admired by the European community. He set up and ran a lithographic press, the 'Behar Lithography', and also formed an amateur art society the 'United Patna and Gaya Society' or 'Behar School of Athens': 'for the promotion of Arts and Sciences and for the circulation of fun and merriment of all descriptions.' | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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