Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (from Twelve Portraits, First Series)
Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson (Newark-on-Trent 1872 – Berkshire 1949)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1897 - 1899
Materials
Lithograph on paper
Measurements
46 x 42 cm
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Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 1429829.4
Caption
This portrait of Rudyard Kipling is one of four commissioned for the New Review in 1897 by Sir William Nicholson. Nicholson was an artist who specialised in chromolithographic images.
Summary
Lithograph on paper, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (from Twelve Portraits, First Series) by Sir William Nicholson (Newark-on-Trent 1872 – Berkshire 1949), 1897/1899. One of a set of four portraits. A half-length portrait, profile to right, hands behind back. Chromolithograph after the original woodcut, commissioned for 'The New Review' in 1897, and republished by William Heinemann in 1899 as No.10 in the first series of 'Twelve Portraits'. The commission led to Kipling and Nicholson's collaboration on the 'Almanac of Twelve Sports'. Plain black and gilt frame.signed on the stone, upper left, and titled below
Makers and roles
Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson (Newark-on-Trent 1872 – Berkshire 1949), artist