Lot Essay
Chevalier was invited by the Duke of Edinburgh to join his party on the Royal Yacht Galatea in Sydney in March 1869 for the voyage home after his second visit to Australia. Chevalier stayed with the Duke until April 1870, visiting New Zealand, Tahiti (19 June - 2 July 1869), Japan, China, India and Ceylon. He left the Galatea at Ceylon, returning to England where he settled for the rest of his career. (For his work for the Duke of Edinburgh see D. Millar, The Victorian Watercolours and Drawings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, I, London, 1995, pp. 189-207).