INDIA BOMBAY APPROACHES W/C 1873 A.H.WALTER

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Chantry Fine Art has been in business for over twenty years selling at major antiques fairs including the NEC. We specialise in fine arts, miniatures, water colours and oils. Billing Antiques is a subsidiary of Chantry Fine Art. INDIA A PASSAGE FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND IN 1873 A.H.WALKER, ANGLO/INDIAN NAIVE SCHOOL This very interesting series of naive watercolours is taken from a disbound Victorian album. They are mostly drawings of a voyage back to England in 1873 by A.H.Walker, probably an Indian civil servant, working near Jubbulpore in the interior, the not long after the Indian Mutiny, and depict scenes en route covering one of |Jubbelpore itself and then from Calcutta, down the Eastern coast of India including Madras, then Ceylon, the Malabar coast of Kerala, Bombay, across to Aden and up the Red Sea to Suez, which had only recently been opened in 1869. It does not cover beyond Alexandria. Although the quality of the drawings is amateur, the representation of the places en route is accurate and gives a vivid portrayal of the scenes witnessed by the artist. Nearly all have locations written on the drawings. One only is signed. The drawings are quite wide (up to 18") and narrow. Most are left on part of their original album leaves. The photographs show these placed on a neutral background. We will be filtering in additional read more

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