"Boulac"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
Boulac (or Bulaq) was Cairo's port on the Nile. P&O steamers would arrive here late at night and passengers and baggage would be met by camels, donkeys and 'omnibuses' provided by the Company, for the remaining journey into Cairo. (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.)