Title
Historical Relics of the Old East India Company
Year/Period
1890
Region
London
Object Type
Dimension
Image size: 37.5 x 24.5 cm,
Frame size: 51.5 x 38.0 cm
Frame size: 51.5 x 38.0 cm
Accession No.
2016-00298
Collection of
This print was published in the Illustrated London News on 30 August 1890. It features, clockwise from top left, the mantelpiece formerly in the Directors’ court-room of the old East India House, the old East India House on Leadenhall Street (1648-1726), the old Crosby House at Bishopsgate occupied by the East India Company from 1621 to 1638, the re-faced East India House on Leadenhall Street in 1726, and obverse and reverse views of the Great Seal of the Commonwealth (1651) appended to a warrant of Oliver Cromwell.
