"Pantalaria and Galeita"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
The Mediterranean islands of Pantelaria (now Pantelleria) and Galeita (now Galeta) lay directly on the outward course of P&O steamers bound for Alexandria. (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.)