"Cape Trafalgar"

In: Overland Route; Part of our Paintings gallery

Date:
c.1850s

Medium:
Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour

Description:
In 1850 the sight of Cape Trafalgar - "scene of Nelson's greatest victory and glorious death" - was still relevant and recent enough to awaken "strong emotions in the bosoms of Englishmen". (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.)