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| Keywords: Tom Raw visits Taylor & Co.'s emporium in Calcutta.jpg en Sir Charles D'Oyly Bt was born in Calcutta in 1781 and after being educated in England returned to India in the service of the East India Company heading a fashionable group of Europeans devoted to artistic pursuits first in Calcutta and later in Patna where he was Opium Agent and later Commercial Resident D'Oyly was a man of boundless energy and social charm and he was also a skilled writer of light verse In 1828 he published a long poem called 'Tom Raw the Griffin' which he illustrated himself A griffin means a greenhorn someone who is new to India and unaccustomed to its ways This painting which in the end was not used in the published book illustrates Tom Raw's visit to Taylor Co 's emporium which sold European porcelain cut glass and many other imported goods and trinkets to the British inhabitants of Calcutta Fashionable ladies and gentlemen parade in the long colonnaded hall of the shop while Indian attendants look on Porcelain and crockery is stacked upon and below a table to the right while elaborate chandeliers hang from the ceiling circa 1828 made http //collections vam ac uk/item/O105773/painting-tom-raw-visits-taylor-cos/ Sir Charles D'Oyly born 1781 - died 1845 artist PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Chandeliers in art 1828 cira 1820s fashion Sir Charles D'Oyly 7th Baronet Caricatures of India | ||||
