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

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.

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

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

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 ContinuitilS*