"Mocha"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
"Mocha, renowned in Europe as the port whence the finest Coffee is exported" and viewed from the deck of a P&O steamer en route to India in 1850. (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.)