"Joseph's Well"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
Joseph's Well was a popular stopping off place for caravans and camels close to Suez. The building depicted is a ruined mausoleum which was used as a guard house to protect the well close by. (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.)