Orientalists 18th century
Charles D'Oyly
Murshidābād 17.09.1781 — Livorno 21.09.1845
Charles D'Oyly was a British public official and painter from Dacca (now Dhaka). He was a member of the Bengal Civil Service based in Calcutta, Dacca and Patna from 1797 to 1838. Although he held senior positions with the East India Company's civil service, he is best known as an amateur artist who published many books featuring engravings and lithographs featuring Indian subject matter.
1781–1845
Edward Upham
Exeter 1776 — Bath 1834
Edward Upham was a British bookseller, antiquarian and orientalist writer.
Upham was Sheriff and Mayor of Exeter, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London. He had a lifelong fascination with the Orient and wrote several historical and popular science works on Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, China and India.
1776–1834