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Panoramic View from Jalobey
Panoramic View from Jalobey
Panoramic View from Jalobey

Panoramic View from Jalobey

Artist (Newburgh, Scotland, 1883 - 1959)
Date1925 - 1949
Mediumpen ink and watercolour on paper
ClassificationsMcBey
DimensionsOverall: Height: 28.6 cm, Width: 152 cm
Frame: Height: 168 cm, Width: 46 cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1989 by Mrs Marguerite McBey.
Copyright© Aberdeen City Council (McBey Collection)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG009020
About MeJalobey was the house that the McBeys bought on the Old Mountain Road overlooking Tangier and the Straits of Gibraltar.

Picnicking on Cherifan rocks - a picturesque view point from which can be seen the coast of Spain - they spotted a house named "Duradi". Within the year it was theirs. They renamed it "Jalobey" from an amalgam of their own names.

Marguerite recorded:
"I can't tell you how lovely it is sleeping in the room by the fishpond, from my pillow at night I see the starry skies and the Tarifa lighthouse - on awakening the coast of Spain and a rosy sky and all the time the splashing fountain where the pigeons fly for a morning bathe."