P&ORef: AC-02308-00
© P&O Heritage Collection
"Gibraltar"
In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery
Date:
c.1850s
Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour
Description:
Gibraltar was the first coaling stop for P&O's outward steamers bound for Alexandria and another hugely strategic, defensive port in the Mediterranean. (Taken from an album of thirty-one watercolours, recording the Diorama of the Overland Mail Route from Southampton to Calcutta, and presented to Brodie McGhie Willcox, one of the founding fathers of P&O.)
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