WD4043

Album (ff.1-60) of water-colours, lithographs and engravings, some by D’Oyly and his circle, others probably by members of the Macnabb family. Other named artists include Thomas Prinsep, Thomas D'Oyly, Lady D'Oyly, William Murray, and Christopher Webb Smith. The album also includes (ff.1-5) five Indian paintings, Add.Or.4302-6, one by Shiv Dayal and two by other Patna artists, and two by Calcutta artists. The Italian views may be connected with D’Oyly’s retirement to Italy 1838-45.

Album 45.5 by 55 cm.

ff.1-5 Add.Or.4302-6 (see below).

f.6 Three vignettes of shipping, one inscribed: ‘Table Bay. CD’.

Water-colour in printed borders; 30.1 by 20.3 cm.

Note: D’Oyly spent leave in South Africa 1832-3.

f.7 Gateway with a domed building beyond.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 13.8 by 18.6 cm.

f.8 Government House, Barrackpore, from across the river.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 7.6 by 11.4 cm.

f.9 An English park.

Water-colour; 17.8 by 25.7 cm.

Note: Possibly Highfield House, see f.14.

f.10 A lady in Turkish costume. ‘EJD’.

Pencil; 9.9 by 9.4 cm.

Note: Elizabeth Jane D’Oyly.

f.11 ‘Major General D. McLeod HEICO’s Bengal Engineers. By F. Cruickshank. Engraved by Richard Smith’.

Oval engraving; 17.5 by 13.7 cm.

Note: Duncan McLeod (1780-1856), in India from 1797.

f.12 Country people playing draughts.

Pen and wash; 28.3 by 22.7 cm.

f.13 ‘May Russell Mitford. Engraved by S. Freeman from a picture by John Lucas, painted 17 April 1852’.

Inscribed: ‘To dear Mrs Macnab from her grateful and affectionate friend M.R. Mitford. Swallowfield Oct. 5th 1854’.

Engraving, vignette; 23 by 14.2 cm.

Note: Novelist and dramatist (1787-1855).

f.14 Church surrounded by trees.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Highfield’.

Pencil; 16 by 23 cm.

Note: James Munro Macnabb lived at Highfield House, Heckfield, Hampshire from 1850 until his death in 1860. His widow lived there until 1862.

f.15 A lady in a black dress and lace bonnet reclining on a sofa. Two children show her their books.

Inscribed on reverse: ‘Lady Macdonald Lockhart of Lee’.

Pencil and water-colour; 21 by 28.1 cm.

Note: Jean Mary Macnabb’s mother died in childbirth and she was brought up by Lady Lockhart. Mrs. Macnabb spent the winter of 1862 in Rome with the Lockharts.

f.16 A house in a park, probably Highfield House.

Pencil; 16.2 by 23 cm.

f.17 Village hut under a clump of bamboo.

Pencil; 14.9 by 19.8 cm.

f.18 A man and young woman in conversation.

Inscribed: ‘Rocca Canterano’.

Water-colour; 16 by 19 cm.

f.19 Bullock cart, Italy.

Water-colour; 16.5 by 23 cm.

f.20 Cows drinking from a stream in a meadow.

Water-colour; 10.5 by 17 cm.

f.21 Figures passing over a viaduct.

Water-colour; 11.6 by 18.8 cm.

f.22 A couple on the seashore, shipping and white cliffs beyond.

Water-colour; 14 by 19.5 cm.

f.23 Portrait of a young man.

Pencil and wash heightened with white; 30.6 by 20.9 cm.

f.24 ‘Dunkeld Cathedral by Sir W.K. Murray’.

Pen and ink; 26.8 by 19.6 cm.

Note: William Keith Murray (1801-1861) 7th Baronet, British Army.

f.25 Officer and cadets, Bengal Army.

Water-colour; 22.7 by 28 cm.

ff.26-27 Photographs of a painting of two young girls, possibly daughters of James Munro Macnabb.

f.28 Large country house.

Water-colour; 17.2 by 23 cm.

f.29 Gateway to a caravanserai.

Water-colour; 11.4 by 18.5 cm.

f.30 Village at the foot of a mountain, two men ploughing with oxen in the foreground.

Water-colour; 13 by 20.5 cm.

f.31 Pheasants in a landscape.

Inscribed: ‘C.W. Smith delt. Nipal. Landscape by Sir C. D’Oyly Bart’.

Lithograph; 29 by 38 cm.

Note: Not in either of D’Oyly’s published sets of birds ‘Feathered game of Hindustan’ 1828, ‘Oriental ornithology’, 1829. Christopher Webb Smith, ICS, collaborated with D’Oyly on his ornithological lithographs.

f.32 A pair of pheasants with distant mountains.

Inscribed: ‘C.W. Smith & C. D’Oyly delt’.

Water-colour within embossed border; 11.1 by 16.7 cm.

f.33 Boats drawn up on the beach with a town and harbour in the distance.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 7.8 by 11.4 cm.

f.34 River view with Indian farmer and his cow.

Water-colour in embossed border; 7.7 by 11.5 cm.

f.35 Tree study.

Pencil; 27.9 by 22.5 cm.

f.36 ‘A Bannian tree in the Collector’s grounds at Midnapoor’. ‘Drawn on stone by Mrs. Mary D’Oyly. Printed by T. Black Asiatic Litho. Press’.

Lithograph; 28.8 by 39 cm.

Note: Mary D’Oyly (b.1794), ‘née’ Fendall (q.v. for drawings by her), second wife of John Hadley D’Oyly.

f.37 A large group in a country park.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 6 by 9.4 cm.

f.38 ‘View of a part of Chittagong. Drawn from Nature and on stone by Miss Fendall’. ‘Behar Lithographic Press’.

Lithograph; 25.5 by 30.7 cm.

f.39 ‘View of a part of the Palace at Rajemahl from the Singhee Dellaun. C D’Oyly delt’. ‘Behar Lithography’.

Lithograph; 24.7 by 35 cm.

Note: Extra to the ‘Behar Amateur Lithographic scrapbook’, published 1830.

f.40 Landscape vignette.

Wash heightened with white inside printed borders; 26.5 by 18.8 cm.

f.41 Fishing below a waterfall.

Water-colour within printed borders; 19 by 15.5 cm.

f.42 ‘Banian Tree on the River Burrel near Surdah. C. D’Oyly delt. 3d. July 1830. Behar Lithography’.

Lithograph; 24.8 by 34.5 cm.

Note: Extra to the ‘Scrapbook’, 1830.

f.43 Government House, Calcutta, from the fort.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 5.9 by 9.7 cm.

f.44a-e Small landscape vignettes.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 3.5 by 7 cm.

f.45 River boats at evening.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 10.5 by 13 cm.

f.46a,b Small landscapes.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 6 by 8.8 cm.

f.47 River by moonlight.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 7.7 by 11.5 cm.

f.48 Gothic ruin in garden.

Inscribed: ‘Giardino Tornjiami’.

Pencil; 24 by 33.8 cm.

f.49 Government House, Calcutta.

Pencil within embossed borders; 6 by 9.5 cm.

Note: By Thomas Prinsep.

f.50a,b Landscape vignettes.

Wash within embossed borders; 7.4 by 11.4 cm.

f.50c,d Small views.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 4.8 by 9.4 cm.

f.51 Buffalo in a landscape.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 7.7 by 11.5 cm.

f.52 Ruined tower.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 13.7 by 18.8 cm.

f.53 Pheasants with mountains beyond.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 11 by 16.8 cm.

Note: By Christopher Webb Smith?

f.54 An owl and other birds. ‘C.W. Smith’.

Lithograph; 28.9 by 37.8 cm.

f.55 A Mughal balcony.

Inscribed: ‘T. D’Oyly’ and on reverse: ‘Sketch of a Balcony in the Fort at Chunar September 1830’.

Water-colour; 30 by 20.7 cm.

Note: Captain Thomas D’Oyly (1794-1834), Bengal Artillery, son of Charles D’Oyly’s cousin, Edward D’Oyly. He was stationed at Chunar as Deputy Commissary of Ordnance from 1828-33 and died in 1834 after the wreck of the ‘Charles Eaton’. See WD4234.

f.56 Lake with mountains beyond.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 10.8 by 13 cm.

f.57 ‘South View of the Residence of C.W. Smith Esqr. Judge and Magistrate of Arrah. C.D’Oyly delt. 29 July 1831’.

Pencil within embossed borders. 13.7 by 20.1 cm.

f.58 Landscape.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 6 by 9.3 cm.

f.59 ‘Raje Mahl on the River Ganges. C.D’Oyly delt. 27th January 1831’.

Pencil within embossed borders; 11.2 by 16.9 cm.

f.60 Tomb on the banks of a stream.

Water-colour laid down on embossed card; 11.8 by 16.1 cm.