"Moors and Arabs on Horseback"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
Close to the Central Station was the revered Acacia tree, held in great veneration by Moslems returning to Cairo from Mecca. The soldiers, depicted mounted on their famous Nedj horses, were in the service of the Pasha. (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.)