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English: In his accompanying text to Charles D'Oyly's 'Antiquities of Dacca', James Atkinson wrote: "Another Mosque, shewn in our engraving with the Begum Bazar Gateway at a short distance beyond, is of a more recent erection. It stands close to the Burigunga River. Its enriched architrave and slender minarets are tastefully contrasted by broad masses of plain character and simple forms. The large fragments of ruin which strew the foreground and of which some have fallen into the river, are the remains of a more ancient, but unrecorded temple."

Although the mosque corresponds to this description, there is no sign of the Begum Bazar gateway, a part of the original drawing which may have been omitted by the engraver. The Mugs were some of the hill tribes from the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

This etching was adapted from D'Oyly's plate 8.
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Source The British Library
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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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creator QS:P170,Q7526198

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