"Jeddah"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
The port of Jeddah on the eastern shore of the Red Sea was celebrated as the point of disembarkation for thousands of pilgrims en route to Mecca, and viewed here from the deck of a P&O 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.)