'Algiers', 1854 (c)

Watercolour by Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham (1830-1886), 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade, 1854 (c).

Markham painted this watercolour while his unit was en route to the Crimea. After passing though the Straits of Gibraltar his troopship would have steamed along the North African coast before stopping at Malta and then continuing east through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorous and out into the Black Sea.

From an album of watercolours and sketches by Colonel William Markham, 1820 (c) and Second Lieutenant William Thomas Markham, 1854 (c).

Purchased with the assistance of the Society of Friends of the National Army Museum.