original art: drawing. A view looking roughly north across the mouth of Mahon harbour entrance, about 1820. The stonework on the right is what remained by then of Fort St Philip (San Felipe), apparently flying Spanish colours since Minorca became permanently Spanish in 1802. In the centre distance is the Felipet Peninsula with the early buildings of the Spanish-built Lazareto or quarantine station on it, later much expanded. Right on its point are the small Felipet fort from which, while Fort St Philip existed until the 1780s a boom chain could be stretched to block the harbour entrance (only about 230 yards wide at that point). Behind Felipet fort is, one of the 31 British-built Martello towers constructed aaround the Minorcan coast in the late 1790s. Another of the towers is on the higher ground behind at the base of Cabo la Mola. Two warships are at anchor in the distance, with three smaller vessels under sail in the mid- and foreground. The closest appears to be a small felucca, with a cutter-rigged sloop to the right. [PvdM 6/18]