"Aden"

In: All Paintings; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
Aden, then a British territory, was a major coaling port and home to one of P&O's oldest agencies. The company acquired land at 'steamer point' in 1855 and created a compound and bungalow for the P&O Agent and his staff. (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.)