INDIA


D'OYLY (CHARLES) A collection of 42 lithographed views and portraits, most signed by D'Oyly, 2 by C.W. Smith, mounted between 1 and 3 per page (recto only, one loose), on 30 sheets, the 20 larger typically c.180 x 220mm., smaller typically 100 x 120mm., stitched in paper wrappers, oblong folio, [Behar, Lithographic Press, c.1828]
|Charles D'Oyly (1781-1845), born in India, entered into the employ of the East India Company, and by 1820 acting as an opium agent at Patna, where he established his Behar Amateur Lithographic Press. A friend of George Chinnery, D'Oyly "was fine draughtsman, his topographic drawings in pen or pencil can be of great skill and sensitivity" (ODNB). The album includes images from D'Oyly's Indian Sports, and two Behar Amateur Scrapbook volumes, and other prints.