IMAGE
[Kipling, John Lockwood], 1837-1911 :Rudyard Kipling. [Bookplate]. 19[09].
- Date
- 1909
- By
- Kipling, John Lockwood, 1837-1911
- Reference
- BOOKPLATES-GRAHAM-Brit-Kipling
- Description
Shows an elegantly dressed man (perhaps Kipling himself) riding in a howdah on the back of an elephant. The elephant is draped in three rugs. In front of the man, is the elephant driver, and at the back is the man who tending the hookah that the Kipling figure is smoking.
For background to the location of Kipling's library, and details about the plate, see http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~landc/bookplates/33_3_Kipling.htm.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [The "09" of the date has been blotted out. But website gives correct date].
Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on bookplate..
Physical Description: Etching, 67 x 54 mm, on paper 90 x 74 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Colour transparency in Ephemera Room.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- The Graham Bookplate Collection; bookplates collected by David H Graham. [1500-1950s] / Various artists :[British bookplates commissioned by persons whose names begin with the letters H through to L, collected by David Graham. 19-- - 1950s].
- Format
- 1 b&w art print(s) on bookplate., Bookplates, Etchings, Etching, 67 x 54 mm, on paper 90 x 74 mm., Orientation: Vertical image
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