Details
KIPLING, RUDYARD (1865-1936). Photograph signed ("Rudyard Kipling"), by Elliott and Fry Ltd., London (imprint on mount), n.d. [circa 1925]. 198 x 152 mm. (7¾ x 6 in.) image size, 292 x 214 mm. (11½ x 8½ in.) including mount. A striking half-length portrait of the author, seated at a table with his head resting on one hand and holding a cigar in the other, signed on the mount.
"Kipling was England's answer to Jack London: a flamboyant, well-travelled, and enormously popular literary figure. His poems and novels set in his native India, including 'Gunga Din' and The Jungle Book, were particular favorites"--W.M.
"Kipling was England's answer to Jack London: a flamboyant, well-travelled, and enormously popular literary figure. His poems and novels set in his native India, including 'Gunga Din' and The Jungle Book, were particular favorites"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4 May 1971, lot 172).