Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Patrick Synge Hutchinson (1911-98)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
c. 1935
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
23 x 19.5 in
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 208070
Summary
Bronze, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), by Patrick Synge Hutchinson, signed bottom left above inscription 'RUDYARD KIPLING', circa 1935. A bronze relief portrait plaque of Rudyard Kipling, in profile. See also NT 761574, a bust of Kipling by Hutchinson, and NT 761381, a letter dated 13 October 1936 from Kipling's widow Caroline to the sculptor. Three casts were taken of Hutchinson's relief plaque; one, cast in lost wax by the Morris-Singer Foundry, was given by Carrie Kipling to the author's first cousin Stanley Baldwin and was displayed at Downing Street (Bonhams, London, 27 March 2007, lot 608). The plaque is illustrated as the frontispiece of Kipling's autobiography Something of Myself, published 1937. A marble version of the plaque is at Wimpole, home of the author's second daughter Elsie, NT 208069.
Provenance
Part of the Bambridge Collection. Wimpole Hall and its contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Mrs Elsie Bambridge (1896-1976)
Marks and inscriptions
Bottom right: Patrick Synge Hutchinson Panel, in relief: RUDYARD KIPLING
Makers and roles
Patrick Synge Hutchinson (1911-98), sculptor