"The Tagus"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
After Cintra, the mouth of the Tagus was the next discernible landmark on the Portuguese coast viewed from the deck of a P&O steamer and painted here from sketches made 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.)