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COLOMBO arriving off Sebastopol, 1854
AC/01413/00
Object category: PAINTING
Date made: c. 1890
Maker: LLOYD, William Whitelocke
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Material/medium: Watercolour heightened with white on coloured paper on stretcher
Dimensions:
- sight: 21.0236 x 38.189 in.; outside frame: 25 x 42.126 x 2.1654 in.
COLOMBO as she appeared during the Crimean War, when she requisitioned and served as transport ship. She carried Christmas mail and provisions (seen here with dead rabbits and birds hanging from the spreaders) to Balaclava and was affectionately known as 'Santa Claus'.