x W: 82.5,
x D: 0 cm,
Frame size: H: 48,
x W: 98
Sir Charles D'Oyly first arrived in India in 1797 and lived his initial years in Calcutta. He is known to have produced some of the most attractive views of nineteenth-century Calcutta and Cape Town. This study of Calcutta's waterfront is a pen and ink one complete with detailed character studies of natives as well as colonials.During a leisurely posting as the opium agent in Patna, D'Oyly studied with the picaresque artist George Chinnery, later founding the United Patna and Gaya Society (the "Behar School of Athens") and the Behar Lithographic Press as a platform for his amateur talents. Calcutta was one of the major ports from which Indians sailed to Southeast Asia. This pen and ink sketch provides a classic view of the late 18th-early 19th century, socio-cultural landscape of the historically significant city.
