WD4117

Views and portraits c.1820, laid down on tinted paper in an album (ff.1-40). Besides D'Oyly, other named artists include John Luard, Alexander Lindsay, K.M. Campbell, Lady D'Oyly, Jai Ram Das and Sita Ram.

Inscribed inside front cover: ‘Album belonging once to James Monro Macnabb and containing sketches etc by Sir Charles D’Oyly and others. Bought from James Frederick Macnabb by Archibald Corrie Macnabb 1928’.

Many of the pages are inscribed in the same hand, in some cases inaccurately, and the album also includes items of Macnabb family interest.

Various media; album 23.4 by 29.5 cm.

f.1 A waterfall.

Oil on paper; 13.6 by 18.2 cm.

Note: For a pencil version by D’Oyly see WD4044, f.5.

f.2 A house and bridge over a waterfall. ‘Capt.Luard’.

Black and white chalk on buff paper; 17.9 by 16.9 cm.

Note: John Luard (1790-1875), British Army, painted sixty views of India for ‘A Grand Moving Diorama of Hindustan’ exhibited at the Asiatic Gallery, Portman Square in 1831.

f.3 Village at the foot of a mountain.

Pencil; 18.9 by 26.7 cm.

f.4 Mounted officer of HM 16th (Queens) Lancers.

Pencil; 28 by 20.4 cm.

f.5 Fast flowing river.

Water-colour; 12.3 by 18.7 cm.

f.6 Mughal gateway.

Pencil highlighted with white on tinted paper; 13.7 by 18.9 cm.

f.7 Sir Charles D’Oyly’s house at Patna from the east.

Pencil; 11 by 15.8 cm.

Note: See lithograph of south-west view in ‘Behar lithographic scrap book’, D’Oyly, Patna, 1828-30.

f.8 ‘Colliers becalmed’.

Water-colour; 11.2 by 16.9 cm.

f.9 Ramparts and tower of an Indian palace.

Pencil highlighted with white on tinted paper; 19 by 14.2 cm.

f.10 Fishing party on the banks of a river, a ruined castle beyond.

Inscribed in ‘nasta‘liq’:’ Jai Ram Das’.

Water-colour; 17.4 by 21.6 cm, oval.

f.11 Coastal landscape with martello towers and figures in the foreground.

Water-colour; 16.2 by 23.9 cm.

f.12 Portrait of a lady, half length.

Water-colour, oval; 9.6 by 8.2 cm.

f.13 Mosque on the banks of a river:

Pencil on tinted paper; 14 by 18.8 cm.

f.14 Studies of horsemen and a castle.

Pencil; 19.7 by 22.8 cm.

Note: The original drawing has been removed and replaced by the present one.

f.15 Two horsemen riding past a ruined building.

Lithograph; 14 by 20 cm.

f.16 A Muslim gentleman, seated. ‘CD’.

Pencil; 16.5 by 17 cm.

f.17 Mountain landscape.

Water-colour; 14.6 by 17 cm.

f.18 Ruined medieval chapel.

Pencil; 10.6 by 7.8 cm.

f.19 Ruins of the Pagla Phul bridge near Dacca.

Pencil; 13 by 14.8 cm.

Note: For water-colour versions see WD486, WD4118, f.4; lithograph in ‘Behar lithographic scrapbook’; two views published in D’Oyly’s ‘Antiquities of Dacca’.

f.20 Three Macnabb children with pony and dog c.1840.

Sepia ink; 19.7 by 22 cm.

Note: Donald Campbell (b.1834) Flora (b.1836) and James William (b.1831). For photograph of painting of all five Macnabb children by Kenneth Macleary see Photo752/20 (107).

f.21 A banyan tree in the grounds of a bungalow.

Water-colour; 10.3 by 16.8 cm.

f.22 Fishermen with their nets by a lake, a classical temple on the bank. ‘A. Lindsay 11th Decr. 1823’.

Pen and ink; 13.6 by 20 cm.

Note: See WD4064 and WD4118, f.11.

f.23 Ruined castle. ‘K.M. Campbell’.

Pencil; 17.5 by 22 cm.

f.24 Stone cottage.

Water-colour; 10 by 12 cm.

f.25 A syce calming a horse.

Lithograph; 16.7 by 21.4 cm.

f.26 A carriage procession in Barrackpore Park showing Government House from the south west, a garden house and tents behind. ‘April XI 1820’.

Water-colour; 13.4 by 24 cm.

Note: The wedding procession of James Munro Macnabb and Jean Mary Campbell. The bride was cousin to the Marchioness of Hastings, whose husband was Governor-General 1813-23, and who was a witness at the marriage. The artist is the Hastings’ draftsman Sita Ram, see the Hastings Albums ‘passim’ and Add.Or.4880 in particular.

f.27 River at dusk.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 5 by 8.8 cm.

f.28 Woman and child.

Pen and ink; 17.7 by 11.2 cm.

f.29 Window of a medieval building.

Pencil; 15.8 by 23.2 cm.

f.30 Two double storied buildings, one flying a red flag.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 4.8 by 9.5 cm.

f.31 River and ruined gateway.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 6 by 9.8 cm.

f.32 River craft at evening.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 4.8 by 9.5 cm.

f.33 ‘Patellas’ in a squall.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 6 by 9.7 cm.

f.34 ‘The late Right Rev. Dr Sumner, Bishop of Winchester’.

Engraved vignette from a newspaper; 19 by 15.3 cm.

f.35 Portrait of Mrs. Jean Macnabb, wife of James Munro Macnabb, half length, c.1820.

Pencil and water-colour; 16.2 by 14.5 cm.

f.36 Mausoleum at Rajmahal.

Water-colour within embossed borders; 6 by 9.7 cm.

f.37 Landscape with a bridge. ‘EJD’.

Lithograph; 10.8 by 15 cm.

Note: Elizabeth Jane D’Oyly.

ff.38-40 Memorial columns.

Pencil; various sizes.