"Tarifa"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
Tarifa marks the southern-most point of the coast of Spain and was of immense strategic importance in the Peninsular Wars early in the 19th Century. (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.)