Sujet
'Two East Indiamen off a Coast', Thomas Whitcombe, c1850. Artist: Thomas Whitcombe
Légende
'Two East Indiamen off a Coast', Thomas Whitcombe, c1850. At this time the East India Company still governed India. The company was founded in 1600 to challenge the Dutch and Portuguese dominance of the spice trade from the Far East. The East India Company lost its administrative functions in India in 1858 after its role in the Indian Mutiny the previous year.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1850
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B63_150
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
30,0Mo (1,2Mo) / 34,6cm x 21,7cm / 4082 x 2568 (300dpi)