Recently presented to the Museum, the picture at left was painted in 1936 by Professor Fred Golla, of the Burden Neurological Institute.
It looks like a busy port, but we cannot identify the location. Can anyone help? If you have any ideas, then please contact us.
     One suggestion is that the location is Port Said, in Egypt. In Michael Farr’s book TINTIN – The Complete Companion, the section on the story Cigars of the Pharaoh, shows a photo of a tower in Port Said, from Hergé’s reference collection, together with a frame from the story. There seems to be a resemblance with the tower in the Golla picture, but this idea has not yet been accepted.