View in Behar, in an Anglo-Indian Album associated with Sir Charles D'Oyly

Sir Charles D'Oyly|Behar Lithographic Press

ca. 1828 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints

Born to English parents in Bengal, D’Oyly followed his father into the civil service. By 1820 he was the East India Company’s opium agent and commercial resident, or tax collector, at Patna, on the Ganges River in Bihar, northeast India. An avid and accomplished amateur artist, whose "pencil like his hookah-snake was always in his hand," D’Oyly established a lithographic press that he operated between 1828 and 1831 with the help of Indian assistants. This fine representation of the press’s output shows the Bodhi Tree at Bihar, where the Buddha attained enlightenment. It is mounted in an album that was assembled in India by 1828.

Artist

Sir Charles D'Oyly|Behar Lithographic Press

Date

ca. 1828

Medium

Lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953