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The British East India Company was the first joint-stock corporation to be formed in England, and it eventually became one of the most powerful trading companies in the world, with a virtual monopoly on trade in India and the East Indies.

The East India Company or the British East India Company and informally as John Company was an English and later British joint-stock company, which was formed to pursue trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and Qing China.

After the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, London merchants presented a petition to Queen Elizabeth I for permission to sail to the Indian Ocean. Permission was granted, and on 10 April 1591 three ships sailed from Torbay around the Cape of Good Hope to the Arabian Sea.

On 31 December 1600, the Queen granted a Royal Charter to "George, Earl of Cumberland, and 215 Knights, Aldermen, and Burgesses" under the name, Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading with the East Indies.
The governance of the company was in the hands of one governor and 24 directors or "committees", who made up the Court of Directors. They, in turn, reported to the Court of Proprietors, which appointed them. Ten committees reported to the Court of Directors. According to tradition, business was initially transacted at the Nags Head Inn, opposite St Botolph's church in Bishopsgate, before moving to India House in Leadenhall Street.

The company played a key role in the spread of British influence in India and the development of the British Empire. However, it also became involved in corruption and exploitation, and it was eventually dissolved in 1858, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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Map from "A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East-India Company ... Compiled ... by Edward Thornton, etc"

Map from "A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the E...

This image has been taken from scan 000007 from "A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East-India Company ... Compiled ... by Edward Thornton, etc". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

The unhappy contrast (BM 1868,0808.6009)

The unhappy contrast (BM 1868,0808.6009)

The poverty of a military officer on half-pay is contrasted with the wealth of an officer of the East India Company. On the left stands an officer beside a cannon inscribed 'G.R.', its muzzle inscribed 'honor'.... More

Sailing vessel of ca.1600 flying a British sea flag (1) port bow view with figures boarding from a boat; (2) port broadside view with figures on board; (3) stern view of vessel at sea; (4) stern decoration RMG PY8425

Sailing vessel of ca.1600 flying a British sea flag (1) port bow view ...

Sailing vessel of ca.1600 flying a British sea flag (1) port bow view with figures boarding from a boat; (2) port broadside view with figures on board; (3) stern view of vessel at sea; (4) stern decoration orig... More

A fleet of East Indiamen at sea

A fleet of East Indiamen at sea

This painting has the alternative title 'Ships of the East India Company at Sea' but was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1803 as 'The Hindostan, G. Millet[t], commander, and senior officer of eighteen sail o... More

Royal Charlotte - Indiaman

Royal Charlotte - Indiaman

three-fold view: front, side, and rear Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bencoleen Sumatra - Public domain vintage map

Bencoleen Sumatra - Public domain vintage map

Dutch sketch map of Western Sumatra from the 1830s. Part of the area in blue is described as "gained from the English in 1825. Much of coast of southwestern Sumatra was a British East India possession known as... More

Portrait of Robert, First Lord Clive OB. 1774 (4671395)

Portrait of Robert, First Lord Clive OB. 1774 (4671395)

A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Robert Clive – British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)

'A Portrait of the East Indiaman ('Orwell'), built at Mr Bayley's Ship-Yard, Ipswich. Launched 17th August, 1817' RMG PU6398

'A Portrait of the East Indiaman ('Orwell'), built at Mr Bayley's Ship...

'A Portrait of the East Indiaman ['Orwell'], built at Mr Bayley's Ship-Yard, Ipswich. Launched 17th August, 1817' Print showing the Indiaman 'Orwell' on the stocks at Ipswich, inscribed lower right: 'Published ... More

Henry Moses - 'Surat Castle' RMG PU7880

Henry Moses - 'Surat Castle' RMG PU7880

'Surat Castle' Print from Moses' 'Sketches of Shipping', entitled 'Surat Castle'. Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist. It shows the East Indiaman 'Surat Castle', presumably in the East India Dock at Blac... More

An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs - RMG 2820

An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs - RMG 2820

An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs... Print An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs...

AMH-6098-NA Map of India - Public domain vintage map

AMH-6098-NA Map of India - Public domain vintage map

Nederlands: Titel catalogus Leupe (NA): The East Indies, with the Roads. Een zeer gedetailleerde kaart van India en Ceylon. Meerdere schaalverdelingen worden rechtsonder weergegeven Schaalaanduiding: Schaal va... More

Paolo Ambrogio - Sir Edward Hamilton, Capt Robert Lundy 1436386 60b6c6b840

Paolo Ambrogio - Sir Edward Hamilton, Capt Robert Lundy 1436386 60b6c6...

Ship portrait, "Sir Edward Hamilton", watercolor, signed Ambrogio, Malta CaptionːSir Edward Hamilton - Capt Robert Lundy. Lundy was master from 1830 to at least 1840 44 x 57 cms

Madras cavalry - Egypt - A painting of a man riding a white horse

Madras cavalry - Egypt - A painting of a man riding a white horse

Madras Light Cavalry inde armée Picryl description: Public domain artwork of horse, equestrian horse riding, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MAJOR GENERAL HARWICKE. LONDON: PARBURY, ALLEN, 1830-32

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE CO...

Album of engravings of the natural history of the Indian subcontinent by General Hardwicke who spent nearly forty years of service in India. Illustrations were engraved from drawings made by English and Indian ... More

The Honble East India Company's Steamer Enterprize built by Messrs Gordon and Co upon the Thames RMG PU6661

The Honble East India Company's Steamer Enterprize built by Messrs Gor...

The Honble East India Company's Steamer Enterprize built by Messrs Gordon & Co upon the Thames Print. Dimensions and other details are given on the plan.

The Honble East India Compys Steamers Irrawaddy and Ganges built at Messrs Kyds and Co Dock-yard (Kidderpore near Calcutta.) (Plan, 1830) RMG PU6671

The Honble East India Compys Steamers Irrawaddy and Ganges built at Me...

The Honble East India Compys Steamers Irrawaddy and Ganges built at Messrs Kyds & Co Dock-yard (Kidderpore near Calcutta.) (Plan, 1830) A page of two diagrammatic representations of the Irrawaddy and Ganges, pr... More

The Nawab's artillery at Plassey

The Nawab's artillery at Plassey

Battle of Plassey, 23rd June 1757; Decisive British East India Company victory over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies, establishing Company rule in India;

Ten incarnations of Vishnu - Drawing. Public domain image.

Ten incarnations of Vishnu - Drawing. Public domain image.

his is a detail from a horizontal scroll-painting depicting Hindu deities. It is a Company painting (the name given to paintings made by Indian artists for the British in India). William Marsden, who served in... More

The preamble, to be subscribed by all persons who shall become adventurers in a national joynt stock for the trade to East India 1698

The preamble, to be subscribed by all persons who shall become adventu...

"The preamble, to be subscribed by all persons, who shall become adventurers in a national joynt stock, for the trade to East-India," printed broadside at London by the English Company Trading to the East Indi... More

Calcutta, Past and Present p238

Calcutta, Past and Present p238

Badge of East India Company from Calcutta, Past & Present by Kathleen Blechynden

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MAJOR GENERAL HARWICKE. LONDON: PARBURY, ALLEN, 1830-32

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE CO...

Album of engravings of the natural history of the Indian subcontinent by General Hardwicke who spent nearly forty years of service in India. Illustrations were engraved from drawings made by English and Indian ... More

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MAJOR GENERAL HARWICKE. LONDON: PARBURY, ALLEN, 1830-32

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE CO...

Album of engravings of the natural history of the Indian subcontinent by General Hardwicke who spent nearly forty years of service in India. Illustrations were engraved from drawings made by English and Indian ... More

... Chinese Court of Justice ... 8th of March 1807 (BM 1858,1009.355)

... Chinese Court of Justice ... 8th of March 1807 (BM 1858,1009.355)

Seamen of East India Company ship Neptune brought before Chinese court to answer charge of homicide. Lithograph

The India directors in the suds (BM 1855,0609.1929)

The India directors in the suds (BM 1855,0609.1929)

It illustrates a dialogue, 'The Directors in the Suds or the Jaghire Factor dismayed at the Ghosts of the Black Merchants'. The scene is a room in the London Tavern at a meeting of Directors to consider opposit... More

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Portrait of Edward Holden Cruttenden, Director of the East India Company

Sir Joshua Reynolds - Portrait of Edward Holden Cruttenden, Director o...

Public domain image of portrait painting, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The Honourable East India Company's Ship Inglis - leaving St Helena, in July 1830 In Company with H.M. Frigate Ariadne and the H.C.Ships Windsor, Waterloo, Scaleby Castle, General Kidd, Farquharson & Lowther Castle RMG PY8462

The Honourable East India Company's Ship Inglis - leaving St Helena, i...

The Honourable East India Company's Ship Inglis (1812)... leaving St Helena, in July 1830 In Company with H.M. Frigate Ariadne (1816) and the H.C.Ships Windsor (1818), Waterloo (1816), Scaleby Castle (1807), Ge... More

The East Indiaman 'Earl of Balcarres' dropping her pilot off Dover, with the pilot cutter in attendance astern, 1832

The East Indiaman 'Earl of Balcarres' dropping her pilot off Dover, wi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of naval activity, ship, sea, 19th-20th century navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

East Indiaman Warley (adjusted)

East Indiaman Warley (adjusted)

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loss of the Bangalore - A group of people on a boat in a body of water

Loss of the Bangalore - A group of people on a boat in a body of water

Loss of the Bangalore, Capt Lynch, on a Coral Reef in the Indian Sea

A calm with an East Indiaman anchored in an estuary RMG PY8394

A calm with an East Indiaman anchored in an estuary RMG PY8394

A calm with an East Indiaman anchored in an estuary Although Swaine painted a few naval actions, his preference was for general shipping subjects, usually on a small scale. Between 1761 and 1783 he exhibited a ... More

A View of the Thames East-Indiaman. As she lay stranded near East Bourne in Feb 1822 RMG PW7707

A View of the Thames East-Indiaman. As she lay stranded near East Bour...

A View of the Thames East-Indiaman. As she lay stranded near East Bourne in Feb 1822 Stored in mount with PAF7706. A View of the Thames East-Indiaman. As she lay stranded near East Bourne in Feb 1822

An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs - RMG PY8445

An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs - RMG PY8445

An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs... Print An Outward bound East Indiaman sailing from the Downs...

The Honble East-India Company's Steamer Burrampooter built at Messrs Kyds and Co Dock-yard (Kidderpore near Calcutta.) (Plan, 1830) RMG PU6676

The Honble East-India Company's Steamer Burrampooter built at Messrs K...

The Honble East-India Company's Steamer Burrampooter built at Messrs Kyds & Co Dock-yard (Kidderpore near Calcutta.) (Plan, 1830) Print. Shows a plan of vessel hull.

East India House by Thomas Shepherd c.1828.

East India House by Thomas Shepherd c.1828.

East India House Leadenhall Street, London, Drawing by Thomas Shepherd (1792 - 1864) Engraved by W. Tombleson c.1828. Deutsch: Hauptquartier der East India Company in London, an der Ecke von Leadenhall Street u... More

Nonsuch (1781 ship) Copy

Nonsuch (1781 ship) Copy

The Calcutta-trade merchantman 'Nonsuch' in two positions off the Kingsgate Gap

Deptford Yard - A painting of boats in a harbor with a castle in the background

Deptford Yard - A painting of boats in a harbor with a castle in the b...

The East India Company's Yard and buildings near Deptford Creek. 17th Century, English school. BHC1873

East India reformers or new ways & means. (BM 1868,0808.5062)

East India reformers or new ways & means. (BM 1868,0808.5062)

North, Fox, and Burke in a room in the India House, the wall of which is inscribed "Committe [sic] Room". They stand in front of a long table behind which is a tall arm-chair inscribed "President's Chair". Fox ... More

Northfleet Hope, 1755. The Old School. Old East Indiaman at Northfleet Hope RMG PY8426

Northfleet Hope, 1755. The Old School. Old East Indiaman at Northfleet...

Northfleet Hope, 1755. The Old School. Old East Indiaman at Northfleet Hope Hand-coloured. Northfleet Hope, 1755. The Old School. Old East Indiaman at Northfleet Hope

The Launch of the Honble East India Compys Ship Edinburgh Captain Henry Bax; from the Dock Yard of Messrs Wigrams and Green Blackwall, November 9th 1825, with a view of the ship Abercrombie Robinson Captain John Innes, on RMG PY8485

The Launch of the Honble East India Compys Ship Edinburgh Captain Henr...

The Launch of the Honble East India Compys Ship Edinburgh Captain Henry Bax; from the Dock Yard of Messrs Wigrams & Green Blackwall, November 9th 1825, with a view of the ship Abercrombie Robinson Captain John ... More

Michael-Topping

Michael-Topping

Michael Topping was a sailor-astronomer instrumental in setting up the Madras Observatory in Chennai in India in 1794.

Captain Macheath (BM 1855,0609.1956)

Captain Macheath (BM 1855,0609.1956)

Satire on the Duke of Grafton's administration and its dealings with the East India Company, in particular negotiations for the extension of the Company's charter; Bute is shown as influencing the Duke's action... More

Shah Allum in distress (BM 1868,0808.10034)

Shah Allum in distress (BM 1868,0808.10034)

A design in two compartments illustrating an article in Biblical phraseology, 'The First Chapter of the Book of Kings' and 'The Lamentations'. In the upper part is depicted a meeting of the General Court of the... More

AMH-7271-KB Map of the south African coast from Saldanha Bay up to and including the Cape of Good Hope and False Bay

AMH-7271-KB Map of the south African coast from Saldanha Bay up to and...

Nederlands: Kaart van de Afrikaanse zuidkust van Saldanhabaai tot en met Kaap de Goede Hoop en False Bay. Linksboven: No: 43. De kaart is afkomstig uit: 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën' van François Valentyn. Cf. Ös... More

Shipping in an Estuary RMG L9338

Shipping in an Estuary RMG L9338

Shipping in an Estuary A scene showing an estuary with shipping and land rising up on either side. The land on the far right includes white cliffs rising up towards fields and woods. Several church towers are ... More

Ft St David, c.1763 - A painting of a ship in a body of water

Ft St David, c.1763 - A painting of a ship in a body of water

British Library; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation. Oil on canvas, 34.5 x 43 centimeters. In the centre is a large ship, flying the East India Company's flag. Fort St David is on the shore to the lef... More

Portrait of East India Company official

Portrait of East India Company official

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one probably depicts William Fullerton of Rosemount, who joined the East India Company's service in 1744 and was ... More

The Old East India House in Leadenhall Street 1648 to 1726

The Old East India House in Leadenhall Street 1648 to 1726

all objects) Production person Print made by Anonymous (all objects) Date 1820-1840 Schools /Styles British (all objects) Description View of the building before it was rebuilt in 1726, showing the old timber ... More

Edward Duncan - Destroying Chinese war junks, by E. Duncan (1843)

Edward Duncan - Destroying Chinese war junks, by E. Duncan (1843)

The East India Company iron steam ship Nemesis, commanded by Lieutenant W. H. Hall, with boats from the Sulphur, Calliope, Larne and Starling, destroying the Chinese war junks in Anson's Bay, on 7 January 1841... More

The retreat of Carlo Khan from Leadenhall St (BM 1925,0715.30)

The retreat of Carlo Khan from Leadenhall St (BM 1925,0715.30)

A sequel to BMSat 6276. Fox, seated cross-legged on an ass, his head facing the tail, holds his head in both hands while he vomits into his feathered turban. The ass has the face of Lord North, in his mouth is ... More

The unhappy contrast (BM 1868,0808.6009 1)

The unhappy contrast (BM 1868,0808.6009 1)

The poverty of a military officer on half-pay is contrasted with the wealth of an officer of the East India Company. On the left stands an officer beside a cannon inscribed 'G.R.', its muzzle inscribed 'honor'.... More

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (3772864875)

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (3772864875)

Description Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (October 6, 1573 – November 10, 1624), one of William Shakespeare's patrons, was the second son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and his ... More

The H.C.S. George the Fourth Captn T.W. Barrow, at the Entrance of the Straights of Sunda, Feby 1830 (plate altered from Sir David Scott) RMG PY8481

The H.C.S. George the Fourth Captn T.W. Barrow, at the Entrance of the...

The H.C.S. George the Fourth Captn T.W. Barrow, at the Entrance of the Straights of Sunda, Feby 1830 (plate altered from Sir David Scott) Starboard stern view of a three-masted East Indiaman George the Fourth, ... More

This Plate Representing the H.C.S. Warren Hastings, - lying to off the Island Ascension, May 22nd 1823 - dedicated to Captain George Mason by his Officers - RMG PY8457

This Plate Representing the H.C.S. Warren Hastings, - lying to off the...

This Plate Representing the H.C.S. Warren Hastings, : lying to off the Island Ascension, May 22nd 1823... dedicated to Captain George Mason by his Officers... Hand-coloured. This Plate Representing the H.C.S. ... More

Robert Sayer - Bombay-by-jan-van-ryne-1754

Robert Sayer - Bombay-by-jan-van-ryne-1754

'Bombay on the Malabar Coast belonging to the East India Company of England'. Published in London in 1754 by Robert Sayer. In this view, we can see the custom house, the Church of St Thomas and the flagstaff of... More

Attack on Chacun - Public domain vintage map

Attack on Chacun - Public domain vintage map

Title: Chakan, Maharashtra Creator: Valentine Blacker Date Created: 1818 Date Published: 1821 Location Created: India Physical Dimensions: 28 x 26 cm Type: Map Publisher: The Book titled o... More

EIC & Pirate Flags - A black and white drawing of flags and symbols
Arcotprinces - Public domain portrait painting

Arcotprinces - Public domain portrait painting

A few princes, like these sons of the Nawab of Arcot, were painted by the popular artist Tilly Kettle (c.1770) Source: http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=4FGKN (downloaded May 2005)... More

Engagement entre trois vaisseaux anglais compagnie des Indes et deux corsaires francais 8 mars 1757

Engagement entre trois vaisseaux anglais compagnie des Indes et deux c...

Engagement between three East Indiamen and two French vessels, 8 March 1757 A painting of an engagement between three East India Company ships and two French vessels, 8 March 1757'. Three homeward bound East I... More

Mocha Dapper 1680 - Public domain portrait engraving

Mocha Dapper 1680 - Public domain portrait engraving

View of Mocha during the second half of the 17th century. The Dutch flag is flying over a Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship in the foreground, as well as over the VOC factory seen toward the left of the pic... More

Sansar chand - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sansar chand - Drawing. Public domain image.

Maharaja Sansar Chand of the kingdom of Kangra, in present day Himachal Pradesh, India. Behind him is his captain of the guard, O'Brien, an Irish deserter of the British East India Company.

George Chinnery - Plowden's house

George Chinnery - Plowden's house

Pencil drawing of the street front of the East India Company’s House, Macao, with steps of the Church of St. Lorenzo. At the period of the drawing, William Henry Chicheley Plowden was the Chief of the East Ind... More

The Battle of Hastings. Bella horrida bella! (BM 1868,0808.5617)

The Battle of Hastings. Bella horrida bella! (BM 1868,0808.5617)

A complicated design showing the forces for and against Hastings, ranged on opposite sides of the House of Commons. The figures have numbers referring to a key etched beneath the design. Hastings, as an orienta... More

East Indiamen leaving St Helena (possibly Neptune and Ocean RMG PY8446

East Indiamen leaving St Helena (possibly Neptune and Ocean RMG PY8446

East Indiamen leaving St Helena (possibly Neptune or Ocean A view of two East Indiamen in starboard broadside view leaving St Helena. The central ship may represent the ‘Neptune’ or ‘Ocean’, based on the Neptun... More

Ship Viscount Melbourne Capt Wm Drayner, H.C.S. off Folkestone RMG PY8501

Ship Viscount Melbourne Capt Wm Drayner, H.C.S. off Folkestone RMG PY8...

Ship Viscount Melbourne Capt Wm Drayner, H.C.S. off Folkestone Built in Shields England 1835, sunk in South China Sea 5th January 1842[1] Hand-coloured. Ship Viscount Melbourne Capt Wm Drayner, H.C.S. off Folkestone

Nizam railway, British colonial period

Nizam railway, British colonial period

According to the web site http://europeana.eu: Photograph of a section of HH the Nizam's railway line, taken by Deen Dayal in the 1880s, from the Curzon Collection: 'Views of HH the Nizam's Dominions, Hyderabad... More

Ceremony witnessing the handing of the British Crown from the East India Company to Queen Victoria

Ceremony witnessing the handing of the British Crown from the East Ind...

Ceremony witnessing the handing of the British Crown from the East India Company to Queen Victoria

Suttee by James Atkinson

Suttee by James Atkinson

Suttee, in the India Office Collection of the British Library, presented by his son James Augustus Atkinson.

Map BEIC 1837-1857 - Public domain geographic map

Map BEIC 1837-1857 - Public domain geographic map

Map of India under the British East India Company

The Peace Makers of India (BM 1868,0808.9872)

The Peace Makers of India (BM 1868,0808.9872)

Satire on the peace negotiations between Hyder Ali, Sultan of Mysore, and Muhammad Ali, Nawab of Arcot, an ally of the East India Company which is shown as making too many concessions; illustration to the Polit... More

1800 Faden Rennell Wall Map of India - Geographicus - India-faden-1795

1800 Faden Rennell Wall Map of India - Geographicus - India-faden-1795

This map (noted as "Third Edition"), created immediately after the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799), is based on the 1793 Faden map (without any version note), created immediately after the Third Anglo-Mysor... More

The H.E.I. Cos- Steamer Pluto John Tudor, Lieutenant Commander, R.N on her Voyage to China, 1842 RMG PU6713

The H.E.I. Cos- Steamer Pluto John Tudor, Lieutenant Commander, R.N on...

The H.E.I. Cos: Steamer Pluto John Tudor, Lieutenant Commander, R.N on her Voyage to China, 1842 original art: drawing

The Honble Companys Steamer Diana, built at Messrs Kyds and Co Dockyard (Kidderpore near Calcutta) RMG PU6657

The Honble Companys Steamer Diana, built at Messrs Kyds and Co Dockyar...

The Honble Companys Steamer Diana, built at Messrs Kyds & Co Dockyard (Kidderpore near Calcutta) Print

Madras Army - A painting of a group of men in uniforms

Madras Army - A painting of a group of men in uniforms

Native soldiers, known as Sepoys, provided much of the manpower that allowed the East India Company to rule India. This illustration depicts members of the Madras Army, which was composed of native Indian troo... More

Documents of Dutch East India Company - VOCMarriageLicense1763

Documents of Dutch East India Company - VOCMarriageLicense1763

Calligraphed marriage license from the VOC at Coromandel. Ink and ink wash on paper, with a monogram stamp of the VOC [Dutch East India Company] in the upper centre, framed under passe-partout behind glass. Fo... More

map from "Hints from the Journal of an Australian Squatter, late in the service of the Hon. East India Company. Compiled for the use of emigrants; and edited, with an introduction and appendix, by Alfred Caswall"

map from "Hints from the Journal of an Australian Squatter, late in th...

This image has been taken from scan 000016 from "Hints from the Journal of an Australian Squatter, late in the service of the Hon. East India Company. Compiled for the use of emigrants; and edited, with an intr... More

Portrait of Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens, Governor of the Cape Colony and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

Portrait of Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens, Governor of the Cape Colony ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of the British Empire armed forces, 19th-20th century war and military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Portrait of Godart Alexander Gerard Philip, Baron van der Capellen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

Portrait of Godart Alexander Gerard Philip, Baron van der Capellen, Go...

Public domain scan of portrait art print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Confucius the Second; or, a new sun rising in the Asiatic world! (BM 1868,0808.5060)

Confucius the Second; or, a new sun rising in the Asiatic world! (BM 1...

Fox as the rising sun, his head, smiling, satisfied, fills the circle of the sun, whose rays are shed over the sky, and fall upon two groups of persons divided by the River Ganges. On the nearer side (right) a... More

East India Stocks (BM 1868,0808.5700)

East India Stocks (BM 1868,0808.5700)

A man personifying the East India Company sits full-face, his legs confined in stocks inscribed 'Con-troul'. The stocks are fastened by a large padlock inscribed 'Security'. He clutches the upright post of the ... More

An Indiaman on fire RMG PU6421 - Drawing. Public domain image.

An Indiaman on fire RMG PU6421 - Drawing. Public domain image.

An Indiaman on fire Plate no.67. This may have been inspired by the burning of the 'Kent' Indiaman, in the Bay of Biscay in 1825, though in that case two other ships were at hand to rescue those who escaped.

The Honble East India Company's Steamer Hoogly built (opposite Calcutta) by the New Howrah Dock Company. (Plan, 1830) RMG PU6674

The Honble East India Company's Steamer Hoogly built (opposite Calcutt...

The Honble East India Company's Steamer Hoogly built (opposite Calcutta) by the New Howrah Dock Company. (Plan, 1830) Lithograph Plan of the ship's hull in cross-section from stern to stem. Diagram of the star... More

Arms of the Hnourable The East India Company

Arms of the Hnourable The East India Company

Arms of the Hnourable The East India Company

A covered sedan chair being carried by eight or nine men, wearing white with various coloured sashes and turbans

A covered sedan chair being carried by eight or nine men, wearing whit...

One of six figures from the Mughal emperor's ceremonial procession on the occasion of the Id Object: Painting Place of origin: Delhi, India (painted) Date: ca. 1840 (painted) Artist/Mak... More

The East India Company's ship Alnwick Castle in two positions off a mountainous shore, Thomas Whitcombe

The East India Company's ship Alnwick Castle in two positions off a mo...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MAJOR GENERAL HARWICKE. LONDON: PARBURY, ALLEN, 1830-32

Gray, John Edward ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN ZOOLOGY; CHIEFLY FROM THE CO...

Album of engravings of the natural history of the Indian subcontinent by General Hardwicke who spent nearly forty years of service in India. Illustrations were engraved from drawings made by English and Indian ... More

Portrait of Lord Clive (4671512)

Portrait of Lord Clive (4671512)

A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Robert Clive – British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)

The East India Ship Duke of Buccleuch, (Captn Alexr Henning) in a hurricane off the Mauritius, attempting to wear RMG PY8491

The East India Ship Duke of Buccleuch, (Captn Alexr Henning) in a hurr...

The East India Ship Duke of Buccleuch, (Captn Alexr Henning) in a hurricane off the Mauritius, attempting to wear Print entitled 'The East India Ship 'Duke of Buccleuch', (Captn Alexr Henning) in a Hurricane o... More

The Honble East India Compys Ship William Fairlie Commanded by Captain Thomas Blair. Leaving the Harbour of Prince of Wales Island - RMG PY8488

The Honble East India Compys Ship William Fairlie Commanded by Captain...

The Honble East India Compys Ship William Fairlie Commanded by Captain Thomas Blair. Leaving the Harbour of Prince of Wales Island... Hand-coloured. The Honble East India Compys Ship William Fairlie Commanded ... More

British (English) School - East India Company Ships at Deptford - BHC1873 - Royal Museums Greenwich

British (English) School - East India Company Ships at Deptford - BHC1...

East India Company Ships at Deptford. The large Indiaman being fitted out in the dock belongs to Thomas Grantham (bap. 1641 – 1718) it is the Charles the Second, 775 tons, launched in February 1683 by Johnson ... More

A military officer of the East India Company

A military officer of the East India Company

The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. This one shows a military officer of the East India Company. The Indian artist has used the native technique and the s... More

Portrait of Begam Samru - Public domain portrait drawing

Portrait of Begam Samru - Public domain portrait drawing

This Company painting is by Jiwan Das of Delhi and is a portrait of Begam Samru, a remarkable Kashmiri woman who started out as a dancing-girl. She originally married the adventurer Walter Reinhardt, who saile... More

Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707) - The End of the Action between the English Indiaman and Three Spanish Privateers - RCIN 405155 - Royal Collection

Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707) - The End of the Action be...

In this ‘two-part’ episode an English ‘Indiaman’ (merchant ship of the English East India Company, flying its flag with red and white stripes) is attacked by three Spanish pirate ships (flying the Burgundian f... More

Stranding van de Britse Oost-Indiëvaarder 'Generaal Barker' bij Noordwijk, 1781

Stranding van de Britse Oost-Indiëvaarder 'Generaal Barker' bij Noordw...

Public domain image of Dutch print, ship, harbor, port, maritime artwork, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Stranding van de Britse Oost-Indiëvaarder 'Generaal Barker' bij Noordwijk, 1781

Stranding van de Britse Oost-Indiëvaarder 'Generaal Barker' bij Noordw...

Op zee het wrak van de Britse Oost-Indiëvaarder 'Generaal Barker'. Voor de kust twee Hollandse zeilschepen met de drenkelingen. Een paardenkar komt de drenkelingen ophalen. Aan het strand van Noordwijk staat ve... More

William John Huggins - The East Indiamen ‚Lowther Castle‘, off Table Bay, Cape Town

William John Huggins - The East Indiamen ‚Lowther Castle‘, off Table B...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Wreck of the General Barker East Indiaman, off Scheveling, on the coast of Holland- Feb 17. 1781 shewing the Poop separating from the Wreck with several Persons, Men, Women and Children, lashed thereto RMG PU6352

Wreck of the General Barker East Indiaman, off Scheveling, on the coas...

Wreck of the General Barker East Indiaman, off Scheveling, on the coast of Holland: Feb 17. 1781 shewing the Poop separating from the Wreck with several Persons, Men, Women & Children, lashed thereto Hand-coloured.

AMH-6143-NA Map of Table Bay - Public domain old map

AMH-6143-NA Map of Table Bay - Public domain old map

Nederlands: Titel catalogus Leupe (NA): Kaart van de Tafelbaai. Met loodingen. De afbeelding toont het aanzicht van de Tafelbaai en directe omgeving Tafel Baij, Leeuwen Bergh, Robben Eijland, Tafel Bergh. Boven... More

An East Indiaman off Singapore

An East Indiaman off Singapore

An East Indiaman off Singapore. (Original artist label on the reverse)

The Cuffnells at the Mother Bank by R. Dodd HMP HMSE P13894

The Cuffnells at the Mother Bank by R. Dodd HMP HMSE P13894

The Cuffnells at the Mother Bank; Built on the yard of Randall at Rotherhithe, London for Sir Robert Preston; launched 9 May 1796 under the name Cuffnells.

An East Indiaman in stays, with a fleet chase beyond RMG BHC1051

An East Indiaman in stays, with a fleet chase beyond RMG BHC1051

An East Indiaman in stays, with a fleet chase beyond In the foreground an Indiaman is shown broadside, to port. It flies the red ensign from the stern as well as short pennants to indicate that it is a merchan... More

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