Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845, British, active in India
Title:
The Summer Room in the Artist's House at Patna
Date:
1824
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 × 13 1/2 inches (17.8 × 34.3 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, center: "For Mrs. Snow | Langton | near Blandford |drawn by her affe. Brother".
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.29.378
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
smoking (activity) | furniture | child | architectural subject | paintings | piano | genre subject | hookah | books | lyre | chandelier | music | rug | frames (furnishings) | fire | interior | reading | fireplace | leisure
Associated Places:
India | Patna
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31)

Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-10-05 - 2006-12-31)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain : four encounters, 1730-1900, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 16, 19, V 1699 (YCBA)

Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 49], V 1699:1 (YCBA)

Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 32, no. 95, V2359 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2019