The winter room in the artist's house at Patna

D’Oyly, Charles (1781-1845)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1824

Height:

19.7 cm  (7 3/4 in.)

Width:

34.3 cm  (13 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper

Place of creation:

Patna (Bihār, Bhārat)

Description

This watercolor drawing presents a wealth of detail about life in a large, comfortable home in India in the 19th century. The scene includes five people, furnishings, hookah, books, artworks on the wall, doors leading into other rooms, a billiard table, and musical instruments (a piano, and a harp) with open music books.

Iconclass

41A221
living-room, parlour, sitting-room
48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)
48C7322
harp
48C7333
pianoforte

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299] (lid closed; with round, adjustable-style stool )
Harp [3285]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Barringer, Timothy J. Art & music in Britain: Four encounters, 1730-1900 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2006) 16, 18.


Rohatgi, Pauline. Indian life and landscape by Western artists: Paintings and drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 17th to the early 20th century (Mumbai: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, 2008) 200, 202, 210, fig. 19.



Shaffer, Holly. Adapting the eye: An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2011) 32, no. 96.

Notes

Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, center: "For Mrs. Snow | Langton | near Blandford | drawn by her affe. Brother"

Signed and dated on verso in pen and brown ink, center: "C D'oyly | Petra | 11th Sept 1824"

RIdIM record id

6304