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D’OYLY, Sir Charles.
Views of Calcutta and its Environs.

From the rare coloured edition of the work. It was published in 1848, and priced at 10 guineas coloured and 6 guineas plain. The original drawings for this work were probably made between 1833 and 1838 while D'Oyly was a Senior Member of the Board of Customs, Salt, and Opium and Marine Board in Calcutta, but some must have been completed between 1839 and 1845 when he retired. The complete work was published after D'Oyly's death in Italy in 1845. D'Oyly, the son of a well-known nabob became the centre of a fashionable group devoted to drawing. A man of boundless energy, he was a satirical observer of Anglo-Indian life. Between 1821 and 1832 when D'Oyly lived in Patna, travellers up the Ganges would stop there and spend lively evenings at his house, admiring his drawings and dining well.

Published
London: Dickinson, 1848.
References
Abbey Travel II 497; Tooley 187; Bobins I 234.
Plates
26
Binding/Size
L=FOLIO
Value
25001-100000
Published
London: Dickinson, 1848.
Ref
1399

FIRST EDITION. Large folio, hand-coloured lithograph title, 25 hand-coloured lithograph plates, two plates with two views, some heightened with gum arabic, original red half morocco gilt, large gilt vignette to upper cover, one tissue guard torn else a fine copy. D’Oyly, a very talented artist, was a pupil of Chinnery. The current views portray not only the city but the surrounding countryside. The lithographs represent Calcutta in the 1830s. Doyly’s lithographs, along with Fraser’s aquatints, illustrate the topographical beauty of Calcutta in its classical heyday. Half red morocco with gilt, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, gilt vignette with title to upper board, bookplates of 'Riehard Blackett Beaumont' & 'Sir Alfred Lane Beit' on front pastedown. Colour plates in order: 1. (Lithographed title). 2. Government House from St. Andrews Library. 3. View near the Circular Road. 4. Garden Reach. 5. Custom House Wharf. 6. Town and Port of Calcutta. 7. Banyan Tree. 8. Church. Entrance to the Dhurumtolla. 9. Mosque at Borranypore. 10. Procession of the Churruckpooja. 11. Office of the Sudder Board of Revenue from Kyd Street. 12. General View of Calcutta, from the entrance to the Water Gate of Fort William. 13. View in Clive Street. 14. View in the Serampore Road. 15. Calcutta from the Old Course. 16. St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. 17. Menagerie at Baruckpore Park / Entrance to Baruckpore Park. 18. View in the Village of Sheebpore. 19. The Bishop's College / The Mahommedan College. 20. Suspension Bridge at Alipore over Tolly's Nulla. 21. View of part of Chowringhee. 22. Statue of the Marquis of Hastings in Tank Square. 23. Hindoo Mut in the Chitpore Bazaar. 24. Esplanade. 25. Hindoo Temple near the Strand Road. 26. Chowrihghee Road from No. XI Esplanade.