NAM.1999-04-20-1

The Naval Stores and Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, March 1827. Watercolour by Major General Thomas Staunton St Clair (1785-1847). View of Rosia Battery with a soldier of the 42nd (or the Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot, a goat herd and three goats in the foreground. The inscription (from the original album ?) reads: ‘In the front ground of this view is Rosia Bay with a centennial of the 42nd Regiment in Royal Highlanders on duty. Immediately under the distant gun is Rosia Bay and the line wall extending round it. The building immediately behind the wall of Rosia Battery is the naval store and the large building standing higher up on the rock is the naval hospital and there cannot be a better adopted one or more commodious. In the trees near the line wall....’.