ABSTRACT
During the first British embassy to the court of Jahangir, a series of paintings were offered to the Mughal emperor by Thomas Roe and the East India Company (EIC). While in some ways this was a standard part of diplomatic protocol and a normal procedure for those separated by distance, the paintings provided by Roe and the company reveal much about the strategies they employed at the Mughal court. These gifts demonstrate the ways in which the company wished to use visual signals to cement cross-cultural connections.
