"Point de Galle, Ceylon"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
"A more beautiful and picturesque scene cannot be offered to the eye of the traveller wearied with the continued expanse of azure and ultramarine". At Point de Galle P&O established another agency and coal depots for onward journeys. Re-fuelling meant passengers had time enough to explore the cinnamon gardens of the interior. (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.)