British Art and the East India Company

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.

List of contents

Introduction: corporate patronage and Company artists
'That extensive commerce': the maritime image of the East India Company
Travels in India: landscape and colonial patronage
Networks of knowledge, power and cultural exchange
The cries of India: colonial power, classification, and the diffusion of knowledge
By way of China
Collecting India
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

GEOFF QUILLEY is Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, specializing in the relation of British and western visual culture to empire and global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was previously Curator of Fine Art at the National Maritime Museum, London, and has written and edited numerous books, including Empire to Nation: Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829 (Yale University Press 2011).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Quilley
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781783275106
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-510-6
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 242 mm x 162 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 900 g
• Illustrations: 102 colour illus.
• Series: Worlds of the East India Company; Worlds of the East India Compa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Asiatische Geschichte, HISTORY / Asia / General, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, Art & Art Instruction