an oil painting ऑफ़ ओल्ड AGRADWIP

Agradwip, a village on the banks of the Bhagirathi | Artist : D'Oyly, Sir Charles
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Identifier: 019WDZ000004404U00003000 ; WD 4404
Format: 12.3 ; 17.1 ; Centimetres ; Watercolour ; jpeg
Agradwip, a village on the banks of the Bhagirathi
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Artist : D'Oyly, Sir Charles (1781-1845)
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Date: [1820] ; 1820
Geographic coverage: 87.833300, 23.000000 ; West Bengal
Type: StillImage | Drawing |
Subject: India | West Bengal | boats | houses | villages | water-colour | British school | South Asia -- History | 954 |
Relation: Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections. Collect Britain
Description: Watercolour by Sir Charles D'Oyly of a village on the banks of the Bhagirathi in West Bengal, from an album in red leather covers with a gold stamped border, containing 28 water-colours of a trip along the Bhagirathi and Ganges Rivers, dated August to October 1820. The trip must have been to take up his new appointment as Opium Agent at Patna.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 Opium Agent at Patna from 1821-1831. 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 a...
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