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Sir Charles D`Oyly
(1781 - 1845)

Indian Sports (2 volumes)



Sir Charles D’Oyly, Indian Sports, [Patna]: Behar Lithographic Press, [1828?] and No. 2: Indian Sports, [Patna:] Behar Amateur Lithographic Press, [1829?]

Number I: 12 mounted lithographed plates after D'Oyly by the Behar Lithographic Press on India paper mounted to album leaves
LIST OF PLATES: 1. Title page / 2. Tiger Hunting / 3. Tiger Hunting / 4. Tiger Shooting / 5. Leopard Hunting / 6. Wild Buffalo Hunting / 7. Bear Hunting / 8. Hare Shooting / 9. Partridge Shooting / 10. Hog Hunting / 11. Hog Hunting / 12. Bear Hunting [#2]
30 x 39.5 x 1 cm

Number II: 13 mounted lithographed plates after D'Oyly by the Behar Lithographic Press on India paper mounted to album leaves
LIST OF PLATES: 1. Title page / 2. Rhinoceros Hunting / 3. Tiger Hunting / 4. Tiger Shooting / 5. Deer Shooting / 6. Jungle Fowl Shooting / 7. Quail Shooting / 8. Duck Shooting / 9. Leopard Hunting / 10. Hog Hunting / 11. Hog Hunting / 12. Bear Hunting / 13. Deer Hunting
30.5 x 42.5 x 1 cm

Full leather bound with gilt border to the front board and gilt text at the spine (both the numbers)

Charles D’Oyly was the best-known and most productive 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 light-hearted society of dilettanti artists like his wife and himself and his friend Christopher Webb Smith.

Lithography came to India in the 1820s and D’Oyly was an early adopter. D’Oyly was the first artist to publish his own works through the newly arrived medium of lithography. D’Oyly 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. A second press was ordered and was established at Patna in 1828. Most of D’Oyly’s works comprised picturesque landscape and river scenes, but the leisure pursuits of hunting, shooting and fishing also featured prominently. Besides Indian Sports, he produced with Smith Oriental ornithology and The feathered game of Hindostan.

To get all three numbers of Indian Sports is quite difficult. The second number is much rarer than the first, and the third has not been recorded in a complete copy.

“Although [D’Oyly’s published works] appear to be regular books in the sense that various copies of them were printed, it is obvious that none of the products of the Behar Lithographic Press was ever published in any commercial sense” (Losty). As a result, all are rare and of those extant.

Reference: J R Abbey, Travel in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 447

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ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS: IN PURSUIT OF THE PICTURESQUE
4-5 MAY 2022

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