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The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector, 1600-1860 book cover

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The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector, 1600-1860

By Jennifer Howes Copyright 2023
234 Pages 85 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

234 Pages 85 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

234 Pages 85 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects... Read more

List of illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Chaos to confidence

2 Landscape and imperialism

3 Romans

4 Scandals

5 Indian sculpture

6 Bureaucracy

7 Continuities

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Jennifer Howes is a London-based art historian who specialises in the art and architecture of India’s colonial period.

“This is the first attempt to look at all the artworks produced by the East India Company, as a corporate entity. Through detective investigation, Howes brings the dispersed collection back together both as a narrative and as a collection, connecting also to current debates about empire, capitalism and memorials”.
Giles Tillotson

“The complexity of the East India Company is one of the reasons British Empire is so poorly understood. Howes does vital work shining light on one particular aspect of its history – a real education for me”.
Sathnam Sanghera

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