'The old major comfortably off', India, 1845

Watercolour by Lieutenant (later Major General) Charles Walter D'Oyly (1822-1900), 58th [Bengal] Native Infantry, 1844.

An officer and his horse, attended to by Indian servants.

From an album of sketches of life in the Indian Army, 1843-1862, including amusing incidents that befell the artist as a subaltern in the 58th Bengal Native Infantry.

D'Oyly sailed to India on the 'Earl of Hardwicke' in August 1842. He served with the 58th as an Ensign and was promoted to Lieutenant in Augist 1844. At the time of the Indian Mutiny (1857-1859) D'Oyly was a Captain. His wife, Emily Jane Nott, died of exposure whilst escaping from Meerut. D'Oyly retired from the Army as a Major General in 1874 and died 11 July 1900 in Blandford, Dorset.

From an album of watercolours by Major General Charles Walter D'Oyly (1822-1900), 58th Bengal Native Infantry, 1843-1862.