This interesting group of watercolours by A.H. Walker document his return voyage back to England from India in 1873. 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.
