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Point de Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
AC/03425/00
Object category: PAINTING
Date made: c. 1847
Maker: NICHOLL, Andrew
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Material/medium: Watercolour over pencil with some scratching out
Dimensions:
- Outside Frame: 68.7 cm x 89.9 cm x 7.6 cm; Sight: 48.4 cm x 70 cm
Point de Galle painted here in 1846 was an important transhipment and coaling port for P&O. 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."