2-888-490 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Diorama of the Route of the Overland Mail to India - Leaving Suez, 1850. Display '...at the Gallery of Illustration, in the house No. 14, Regent-street [in London] built by Mr. Nash, the architect, for his own residence. The Exhibition consists of a moving Dioramic Picture, shewn through a flattened oval frame at one end of the splendid saloon which Mr. Nash (if we mistake not) fitted up and embellished in the style of one of the galleries of the Vatican, at Rome. The picture passes in view before the spectators, and shows the main points of the Route of the Overland Mail to India, commencing with Southampton Docks, whence the steamer destined for Alexandria takes its departure...There is little to tempt the passenger to remain at Suez - nor, indeed, is there much time for deliy. The steamer lies in the offing, and all speed is used to complete the embarkation for India'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.