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English: This etching is derived from plate 9 of Charles D'Oyly's 'Antiquities of Dacca'.A quarter of a mile to the east of the Bara Katra in Dhaka is the Chota Katra: essentiallty a smaller version, similar in layout, which was built in 1663 by the Mughal governor of Bengal and uncle of Aurangzeb, Shaista Khan.Historian James Atkinson wrote that D'Oyly's view of the caravanserai "is taken from within the area of the square which its walls enclose ... a small Mosque ... on the left ... Its minarets rise somewhat like the shafts of elegant octangular columns, and are terminated by capitals of oriental foliage and fruit ... and while the dome of this mosque is beautifully fluted, its uniformities of colour and form are varigated in a picturesque manner by the blue and orange mosses, and other luxurious vegetation of this part of Asia".
বাংলা: ১৮১৭ সালে চার্লস ডিওয়েলে অঙ্কিত ছোট কাটার ও এর মসজিদ।
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Sir Charles D'Oyly, 7th Baronet  (1781–1845)  wikidata:Q7526198 s:en:Author:Charles D'Oyly
 
Sir Charles D'Oyly, 7th Baronet
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Charles D'Oyly; Charles D. D'Oyly; Sir Charles D'Oyly; Charles, Baronet D'Oyly; Sir D'Oyly; Sir Charles D'Oyly, 7th Bt.; Charles Oyly
Description British painter, civil servant and scientific illustrator
Date of birth/death 18 September 1781 Edit this at Wikidata 21 September 1845 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Murshidabad Edit this at Wikidata Livorno Edit this at Wikidata
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current05:35, 28 May 2022Thumbnail for version as of 05:35, 28 May 20222,500 × 2,077 (1,020 KB)Dead.rabbit (talk | contribs)better quality image from https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/image/1036820001
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