Dr Kate Smith, Research Fellow on the project ‘East India Company at Home 1757 – 1857’ at UCL (Department of History), talks about Warfield Park…
Object Type Samuel Scott (1702?-1772) and other artists began to paint views of the River Thames after Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768) arrived from Venice in 1746….
Physical description Albumen print of a Government ceremony to witness the handing of the British Crown from the East India Company to her Majesty Queen…
This oval ivory miniature shows the interior of the Jami Masjid, India’s largest mosque. A workforce of 5000 built it between 1644 and 1656, during…
Charles D’Oyly was born in Calcutta in 1781 (Kolkata)and after being educated in England returned to India as an East India Company servant. He was…
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