Company Culture: British Artists in the East India Company, 1770–1830 11 OCTOBER, 2003 — 25 JANUARY, 2004 Tea, spices, fabrics, and other luxury goods from the Indian subcontinent transformed everyday life in Britain. These were the products of an aggressive colonial endeavor spearheaded by the East India Company. Founded in 1600, the East India Company was a collective of London-based merchants that controlled every aspect of British involvement in India until 1813. Company Culture examined the role played by artists in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in documenting the East India Company's extraordinary imperial initiative and formulating the image of the British presence in India. Drawn entirely from the Center's rich collection of paintings, works on paper, and rare books, the exhibition explored shared themes with Traces of India, such as strategies of representation, imperialism, and the formulation of national identity for British India. Company Culture was organized by Morna O’Neill, a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University.