"Isle of Wight, Osborne"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
Soon after passing Cowes, the early P&O passenger was promised (weather permitting!) an excellent view of Osborne, from the deck of the outward bound steamer. (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.)