East India House

Hand-coloured.

The British headquarters of the East India Company were in Leadenhall Street in London. This engraving was made after the building had been rebuilt in 1799. By the early 1800s, the East India Company, which had held the monopoly of trade with the east since 1600, was coming under attack from the supporters of free trade, and its sole trading rights to India would soon be revoked by the British Parliament in 1813. The Company lost its monopoly on the China trade twenty years later.

Object Details

ID: PAH9921
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Stadler, Joseph Constantine; Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer Ackermann, Rudolph
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: 1 Jun 1817
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 443 mm x 529 mm; Mount: 571 mm x 761 mm
Close

Your Request

If an item is shown as “offsite”, please allow eight days for your order to be processed. For further information, please contact Archive staff:

Email:
Tel: (during Library opening hours)

Click “Continue” below to continue processing your order with the Library team.

Continue