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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.
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.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAH9921 |
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| Type: | |
| 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 |