WILLIAM FAWCETT and HMS Queen in 1837

In: Selected Images; Part of our P&O in Pictures gallery

Date:
1893

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white, gum arabic and bodycolour

Description:
The painting depicts what was most probably a fictitious meeting between the sailing warship HMS QUEEN and the 206-ton paddle-steamer WILLIAM FAWCETT which made the first Peninsular Steam sailing to Spain and Portugal in 1835.

Featured Ship:
WILLIAM FAWCETT (1828)

Shipping Line:
P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY