Colonial trading posters & prints

The Plymouth colony's first trading post, Bourne, Massachusetts, USA Anonymous

Our Colonial Wool Trade Anonymous

The first East Indian legation in the Netherlands W Steelink

Commercial Exchange, Cape Town George Thompson

Fort William at Bengall, 1736 Gerard Vandergucht

Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov, ca 1806 Anonymous

Advertisement Seeking Colonists for Virginia Anonymous

Senegambian People Anonymous

Fort Ross. Russian-American Company settlement, c. 1880 Henry Raschen

Self-Portrait (Copy), 1806 Nikolay Petrovich Rezanov

Foundation of Batavia, Java, Dutch East Indies JH Rennefeld

Capture of Fort Frontenac Anonymous

Charles Apthorp, 1748 Robert Feke

View of the Danish colony of Tranquebar in India, c.1658 Unknown

A bill advertising a West Indian slave auction in 1829 Anonymous

House for Rent, Horse and Goat for Sale Jean Baptiste Debret (after)

John Wood Approaching Bombay, c1850. Joseph Heard

Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov Anonymous

America: A European Merchant Negotiating with Native Americans Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Trinidad and Tobago Exhibition, 1890 English Photographer

A View of Victoria, Hong Kong with British Ships and other Vessels, c.1850 School Chinese

Ivory and Skins for Sale in the Grahamstown Market Cape Colony 1866 Anonymous

Portrait of Pierre Poivre French School

Two East Indiamen off a Coast, Thomas Whitcombe, c1850 Thomas Whitcombe

Jan Huygen van Linschiten illustration Anonymous

Le Cap de Bonne Esperance, 1727 Dutch School

Jan Huygen van Linschiten illustration Anonymous

Joseph Chamberlain, British Liberal statesman John Benjamin Stone

View of Judea, the capital of Siam, c.1662-3 Johannes

Experts purchasing silk cocoons, for export to France, Antioch, Syria Underwood & Underwood

The island of Deshima, c.1833-46 Keiga Kawahara

Portrait of Alexander Baranov, chief of the Russian-American Company, first governor of Russian Alaska, 1818 Michail Tikhanov

A Prospect of the Road in the Bay of Sierra Liona Johannes Kip

Treaty of the Nawab with the British at Benares in 1765 at which Gentil was present French School

The Waterfront at Canton Sunqua Sunqua

View of Cannanore on the Malabar Coast in India, c.1662-3 Johannes Vinckeboons