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COMORIN & CHITRAL and photographs of Cairo and Aswan
This painting is the original artwork for an Orient Line poster
This painting of VICTORIA (1887) forms the central part of a much larger work commissioned to commemorate the Company's Jubilee in 1887 and the introduction of the Jubilee Class ships
PEKIN (1871) was built for the UK/India and Far Eastern services
The painting depicts what was most probably a fictitious meeting between the sailing warship HMS QUEEN and the 206-ton paddle-steamer WILLIAM FAWCETT which made the first Peninsular Steam sailing to Spain and Portugal in 1835
Shipping off Alexandria, Egypt Size:small COMORIN & CHITRAL and photographsAn 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.'
