Charles D'Oyly

Charles D’Oyly painted British India in the early 1800s. He made watercolors and prints that showed life in Calcutta—shopkeepers, street scenes, and British officers at work. One piece shows Tom Raw, a fictional British visitor, browsing a Calcutta shop in 1828. His work fits British Orientalism, a style where Western artists showed life in the East with a mix of curiosity and colonial view. Want to see more scenes from old Calcutta? Tap “Tom Raw visits Taylor & Co.’s emporium.”