Voyaging

Voyage from Calcutta to Suez 1873, topographical sketches by A.H. Walker. Walker was based at Jubbulpore (Jabalpur) in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, possibly working for the Indian Civil Service. The drawings document his trip from the Hooghly at Calcutta in Bengal down the east coast of India, round to Kerala, then west to the Red Sea and Suez, where the canal had only recently opened in 1869. The drawings are an eyewitness account of a journey that was traversed by so many British during the Raj in the 19th century.