Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1891
Materials
Paper and wood
Measurements
266 x 226 mm
Order this imageCollection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 760774
Summary
Pencil on paper, (lithograph(?) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) by Marion Margaret Violet Lindsay, Lady Granby and Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937). Signed with monogram and dated 1891. Framed with inscription "W.E. Henley from Violet Granby 1899" (in store). Author and poet; son of John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) and Alice Macdonald; married Caroline Starr Balestier (1862-1939). They had three children: (i) Josephine Kipling (1892-1899) (ii) Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 – 1976) (iii) John Kipling (1897- killed in action 1915)
Marks and inscriptions
"W. E. Henley from Violet Granby 1899" Signed with monogram and dated 1891
Makers and roles
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937), artist