The complacently smiling Charles Fox walks across a cobblestone street towards an arched gateway resembling the entrance to the St. James's Palace, carrying the East India House on his shoulders. A note stuck in his pocket and two other ones that he walks on, as well as the papers falling out of the house, refer to the first of his East India bills that met with violent opposition
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper ; plate mark 30.5 x 22.7 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 24.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 20 of James Sayers's Folio album of 144 caricatures.
Publisher:
Published 25th Novr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Management, Politics and government, Building models, and Gates
The complacently smiling Charles Fox walks across a cobblestone street towards an arched gateway resembling the entrance to the St. James's Palace, carrying the East India House on his shoulders. A note stuck in his pocket and two other ones that he walks on, as well as the papers falling out of the house, refer to the first of his East India bills that met with violent opposition
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed with the monogram of James Sayers., and Mounted on page 33 with one other print.
Publisher:
Published 25th Novr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Management, Politics and government, Building models, and Gates
The complacently smiling Charles Fox walks across a cobblestone street towards an arched gateway resembling the entrance to the St. James's Palace, carrying the East India House on his shoulders. A note stuck in his pocket and two other ones that he walks on, as well as the papers falling out of the house, refer to the first of his East India bills that met with violent opposition
Description:
Title etched below image. and Signed with the monogram of James Sayers.
Publisher:
Published 25th Novr. 1783 by Thomas Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806 and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Management, Politics and government, Building models, and Gates
BEIN 1987 Folio 4: imperfect: plates 5-6 wanting., BEIN Folio 523: 49 cm. Imperfect: plate 12 wanting. Armorial bookplate: Arthur Grote. Ms. annotations on plates. No. 1 of 2 titles bound together., Page [1] at end blank., and Plates XLII-XLIII on one leaf.
Publisher:
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare-Press for George Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall,
Subject (Name):
Allen, T.--Bookplate, East India Company, Grote, Arthur--Bookpate, and Heber, Richard,--1773-1833--Stamp
Printed form, completed in manuscript, attesting to Nathaniel Helly of Nuneaton's five year engagement in the service of the East India Company "at St. Helena, or any of their settlements in India." Signed by Nathaniel Helly and William Beckford, then Lord Mayor of London
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Beckford, William, 1709-1770., Helly, Nathaniel., East India Company., and East India Company
Manuscript, incomplete, of this history of India and of the gradual from the death of Aurangzeb until 1781.
Description:
Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 2 contain an interlinear translation into English in the hand of Sanskrit scholar and Calcutta Judge Sir William Jones. Title page in Joness hand: "Observations on the Administration of Government and Justice by the English i
A manuscript in a single hand, signed by the clerks and witnesses, providing a record of the answers to fifteen questions, prompted by an 1814 parliamentary investigation into the living conditions of ‘Lascars and Chinese’ which ended with the publication of a report from a Committee on Lascars and Other Asiatic Seamen in 1816. As part of their investigation, the clerk Isaac Newton records the answers of 'Boodoo' and 'Mamood', both of whom attest to the statements with their marks of an 'x', which provide very detailed evidence of the living conditions, the kind and amount of food and drink provided, clothing and health care and the physical safety in cramped living quarters, the way in which these sailors were buried
Description:
In English., Title from item., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
China., India., and London (England)
Subject (Name):
East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Employees, Merchant mariners, Economic conditions, and Social conditions
The administrators of the East India Company are confronted with the image of East Indian merchants. A letter of apology lies at the feet of the one director who stands up in fright, his chair overturned behind him
Description:
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Town and country magazine, v. 4, supplement (1772), page 705., Illustration to dialogue: The directors in the suds, or, The Jaghire dismayed at the ghosts of the black merchants., and Placement instructions above image: Vol. IV ; No. XXXIX.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Colebrooke, George, Sir, 1729-1809, Clive, Robert Clive, Baron, 1725-1774, and East India Company
Subject (Topic):
Administration, East Indians, Merchants, and Taverns (Inns)
