P&ORef: AC-02305-00
© P&O Heritage Collection
"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.)
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