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

1) This book is about art that was collected and commissioned by the East India Company. 2) It looks at landscapes and portraits on canvas, marble statuary and funerary monuments, sandstone Buddhas purloined from sacred sites and metal figurines of Hindu deities. 3) This book will be of interest to departments of art history and colonial history across UK and USA.