Author: Charles HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company, from the Year 1760 to 1810
Author: Charles HardyBritish Art and the East India Company
Author: Geoff QuilleyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275103
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art, demonstrating how art and related forms of culture were closely tied to commerce and the rise of the commercial state. This book examines the role of the East India Company in the production and development of British art during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when a new "school" of British art was in its formative stages with the foundation of exhibiting societies and the Royal Academy in 1768. It focuses on the Company's patronage, promotion and uses of art, both in Britain and in India and the Far East, and how the Company and its trade with the East were represented visually, through maritime imagery, landscape, genre painting and print-making. It also considers how, for artists such as William Hodges and Arthur William Devis, the East India Company, and its provision of a wealthy market in British India, provided opportunities for career advancement, through alignment with Company commercial principles. In this light, the book's main concern is to address the conflicted and ambiguous nature of art produced in the service of a corporation that was the "scandal of empire" for most of its existence, and how this has shaped and distorted our understanding of the history of British art in relation to the concomitant rise of Britain as a self-consciously commercial and maritime nation, whose prosperity relied upon global expansion, increasing colonialism and the development of mercantile organisations.
A Register of Ships, Employed in the Service of the Honorable the United East India Company, from the Year 1760 to 1819, with an Appendix
Author: Charles HardyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850
Author: Rebekah HiggittPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137520647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science, seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing factors.
The European Magazine, and London Review
Author: The European Magazine and London Review, by the Philological Society of London
Author: The Literary Panorama, and National Register
Author: The Worlds of the East India Company
Author: H. V. BowenPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843830736
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A collection of essays on the history and relationships of the East India Company from 1600 to the early 1800s.
Catalogue of the Library
Author: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library: Biography (2 pts.)
Author: National Maritime Museum (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description