The Death of Sir Donald Friell McLeod, after an accident on the Metropolitan Railway at Gloucester Road Station, 1872

The scene in the present watercolour depicts the death of Sir Donald Friell McLeod, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, 1865-1879. In the lower half of the watercolour an accident, which happened at Gloucester Road Station in London, is depicted and the upper half shows the dying victim at St. George's Hospital with angels in a palanquin carrying the body up to heaven. The watercolour was most probably commissioned as a memorial to McLeod, by a friend of his, possibly Sir Charles Aitchison, who was an important Civil Servant in India. It is said to have been exhibited at The Empire of India Exhibition, 1895 because it was considered to be such a good example of 'native art'.