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Coromandel Coast, India

AC/03424/00

Object category: PAINTING

Date made: c. 1847

Maker: NICHOLL, Andrew

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Material/medium: Watercolour and brown ink heightened with white oWatercolour on thick watercolour paper adhered to board

Dimensions:

  • Outside Frame: 68.7 cm x 90.3 cm x 8 cm; Sight: 48.5 cm x 69.9 cm

An entry in the P&O Board Minutes for 30th June 1848 records "Mr. Nicholls sends 6 watercolour drawings of principal ports visited by the Company's steamers from Southampton to Ceylon in return for free passage granted to his wife in August 1846."