- Title:
- The Winter Room in the Artist's House at Patna
- Date:
- 1824
- Medium:
- Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 3/4 × 13 1/2 inches (19.7 × 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"
Signed and dated on verso in pen and brown ink, center: "C D'oyly | Petra | 11th Sept 1824"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.379
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | billiard room | books | chandelier | child | fire | fireplace | frames (furnishings) | furniture | genre subject | hookah | interior | leisure | lyre | music | paintings | piano | reading | rug | smoking
- Associated Places:
- India | Patna
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp.16, 18, V 1699 (YCBA)
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 48], V 1699:1 (YCBA)
Pauline Rohatgi, Indian life and landscape by Western artists, paintings and drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 17th to the early 20th century , Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, 2008, pp. 200,202,210-, fig. 19, N8214.5 I5 V53 2008 + (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. 96, V2359 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2020
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Sir Charles D'Oyly, 1781–1845, British, active in India, The Winter Room in the Artist's House at Patna, 1824
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