The Schoolboy Poet: Rudyard Kipling as a schoolboy in the footsteps of great poets
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1875
Materials
Paper
Order this imageCollection
Bateman's, East Sussex
NT 761484
Summary
Print, facsimile of a drawing, The Schoolboy Poet: Rudyard Kipling as a schoolboy in the footsteps of great poets by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911). Titled The Schoolboy Poet. The showcase caption reads - "The Schoolboy Poet. A drawing by Lockwood Kipling of "Great Poets" with the young Rudyard on the right. Circa 1875." Homer (?), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), William Shakespeare (1564-1616), George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824), Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Henry Wadsorth Longfellow (1807-1882) and Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) as a schoolboy.
Makers and roles
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911), artist