Portrait of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

William Strang (1859-1921)

1898

Etching

Source: Newbolt, Plate XXXVII

This is Strang's second etching of Rudyard Kipling: he had produced one in the previous year as well (Hind 330). Later, in 1900, he would make thirty aquatints and etchings to illustrate Kipling's short stories, which Macmillan published in 1901 in bound portfolios (see "Collection Details").

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