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WD2466
- Record Id:
- 032-003268093
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003268093
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x0011be
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD2466
- Title:
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The General Court Room, East India House, Leadenhall Street, London. Foster 4. Artist(s): Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (1793-1864)
- Scope & Content:
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The General Court Room, East India House, Leadenhall Street, London. c.1820.
Inscribed on picture: ‘T.H. Shepherd’; on mount: ‘The General Court Room, East India House.’
Water-colour; 5.75 by 8 ins.
Purchased 1902.
Note: A meeting of the Court of Proprietors is in progress, the Chairman and Director being seated at the long table on the right. In niches are the statues of Clive, Pocock and Stringer Lawrence. The drawing can be dated c.1820 as there is no sign of the statue of Warren Hastings which was erected in 1823.
Foster Catalogue, no.4
Reproduced: G. Birdwood and W. Foster, ‘Relics of the Honourable East India Company’ (London, 1909), plate 43; W. Foster, ‘East India House’ (London, 1924), 142.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003268093
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003268093
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1819
- End Date:
- 1821
- Date Range:
- c 1820
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 633-634
- Exhibitions:
- The Raj: India and the British, National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 October 1990 - 17 March 1991
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- East India Company, 1600-1858
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, 1793-1864 - Subjects:
- East India Company
Occupations
trade and commerce - Places:
- London, United Kingdom
Westminster, England