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Lot 77 Details
Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters 24-26 July 2024
St. Paul‘s...
Colour lithograph on paper
View Dimensions Print Size: 15.5 x 21.5 in (39.5 x 54.8 cm)Sheet Size: 16.4 x 22.5 in (41.8 x 57.3 cm)With Mount: 24.3 x 29.6 in (61.8 x 75.2 cm)
Winning bid $4,627 Rs 3,84,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Lot 57 Details
Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 7 January 2025
Calcutta from...
Later hand-coloured tinted lithograph on paper
View Dimensions Sheet Size: 13.75 x 232 in (34.7 x 58.5 cm)With Mount: 20 x 29.25 in (50.5 x 74 cm)This lithograph is taken from plate 15 of Sir Charles D'Oyly's Views of Calcutta and its Environs. This print offers a wide-angle view of colonial Calcutta, captured from the Old Course of the river. It captures both the grandeur of the city and the traditional aspects of life, with people seen engaging in daily activities, and also depicts the bustling city and buildings that blend European architecture with traditional Bengali elements. The lithograph highlights the dynamic urban life of the city and its significance as the heart of British administration in India during the 19th century. D'Oyly's work is valuable both as an artistic achievement and a historical record of Calcutta's colonial landscape.Sir Charles D’Oyly (1781–1845)Charles D’Oyly was a well-known and prolific amateur British artist in India in the early 19th century. While acting as the East India Company’s Opium Agent and later Commercial Resident at Patna, he founded the “Behar School of Athens," a lighthearted society of dilettanti artists like his wife, himself, and his friend Christopher Webb Smith.Lithography came to India in the 1820s, and D’Oyly was an early adopter. He was the first artist to publish his own works through the newly arrived medium of lithography. He had ordered a lithographic press from England in 1823, though transporting it to Patna proved difficult, with the first such attempt resulting in the destruction of the press in a squall on the Ganges. In 1828, D'Oyly ordered and established a second press in Patna. Most of D’Oyly’s works comprised picturesque landscape and river scenes, but the leisure pursuits of hunting, shooting, and fishing also featured prominently. This lot will be shipped unframed.NON-EXPORTABLEThis lot will be shipped in "as is" condition. For further details, please refer to the images of individual lots as reference for the condition.
Winning bid $1,412 Rs 1,20,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 48 Details
Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 13 February 2024
Banyan Tree
Original hand-coloured lithograph on paper
View Dimensions Print size: 14.9 x 18.1 in (38 x 46.2 cm)Sheet size: 16.1 x 20.1 in (41 x 51.2 cm)With mount: 22.4 x 26.3 in (57 x 67 cm)Plate no. 7 from the book Views of Calcutta and its Environs, London: Dickinson, 1848D'Oyly cherished the beautiful vegetation and beauty of India. Because banyan trees are considered sacred by Hindus, it is illegal to chop them down. As a result, the trees grew enormously, sending out aerial roots that eventually sprout new branches when they reach the earth. This picture does a great job of capturing the tree's serpentine growth pattern.D’Oyly wrote to Warren Hastings (whose wife was his godmother): “To this wonderful work of nature I devoted four days of the last cold weather and while sitting under the spreading branches I could not help wondering that no painter had been induced to exert his talents in describing this tree as it ought to be—alone… it should stand in the picture as it does in nature unrivalled.”This work will be shipped unframedNON-EXPORTABLE
Winning bid $2,169 Rs 1,80,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 46 Details
Absolute Tuesdays: Old Maps and Vintage Prints 28 February 2023
General view of...
Later hand-coloured lithograph on paper
View Dimensions Print size: 13.5 x 22 in (34.5 x 56 cm) Sheet size: 17.25 x 25 in (43.8 x 63.3 cm)
Winning bid $667 Rs 54,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 14 Details
Old Maps and Vintage Prints 26 July 2022
View Near The...
View Dimensions 13.5 x 17.5 in (34 x 44.6 cm)
Winning bid $788 Rs 61,440 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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This coloured lithograph published by Dickinson & Co. is taken from plate 12 of Sir Charles D'Oyly's Views of Calcutta and its Environs . The original drawings for this work were likely created between 1833 and 1838 while D'Oyly was a Senior Member of the Board of Customs Salt and Opium
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