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"Suez"
AC/02323/00
Object category: PAINTING
Date made: c.1850s
Maker: Attributed to HENRY FITZCOOK
Material/medium: Watercolour on paper heightened with white bodycolour
Dimensions:
- sight: 20.8 x 31.3 cm
On reaching Suez travellers could once again take up their journey by sea and small boats conveyed passengers to waiting steamers bound for India. The house with the veranda (on the left of the painting) was once home to Napoleon Bonaparte. (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.)