taken a steamer eastwards from Marseilles, to return via the Adriatic and Trieste. Moreover, Frederick Goodall was not yet "R.A." in 1858, with full membership of the Royal Academy coming only in 1863. In the spring of 1871 Goodall called at Naples on the way back from his second trip to the Middle East  (in tragic circumstances: his artist son Frederick Trevelyan Goodall was fatally wounded in a freak shooting accident on the island of Capri). The planned or unscheduled stop-over in southwest Spain could have occurred on the return leg of this trip, which would have meant Goodall's taking the sea route via Gibraltar to England. Alternatively, Goodall could have sailed via the Gulf of Cadiz and Gibraltar on his way out to Egypt in 1870.

In the bottom left-hand corner of this watercolour sketch a man on a donkey has been pencilled in but left unpainted. 

Goodall's father, Edward Goodall (1795-1870), had engraved Turner's topographically fanciful depiction of the friary of la Rábida in the 1830s. "Columbus and his Son", one of a series of vignette watercolours that Turner produced for Samuel Rogers's Poems (Tate, Turner Bequest, D27705), shows the explorer and his son, Diego, being welcomed by friars against the backdrop of a church and monastery cloister that bear scant relation to the real location, which has here been accurately depicted by the younger Goodall. 



SOURCES AND FURTHER READING 

• The Reminiscences of Frederick Goodall R.A. London, Newcastle: 1902                                                        

• Samuel Rogers, Poems. London: T. Cadell, E. Moxon, 1834