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"Joseph's Well"
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Date:
c.1850s
Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour
Description:
Joseph's Well was a popular stopping off place for caravans and camels close to Suez. The building depicted is a ruined mausoleum which was used as a guard house to protect the well close by. (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.)
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