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  • Collection: Kipling Scrapbooks - Letters of Marque

Title page of Jérôme Lalande's travel narrative

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This item shows the title page for Jérôme Lalande's 'Travels in France, Italy and the Isle of the Archipelago; or The Writings of Several Places of Europe and the East' from 1763.

Portrait Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Bassett

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This is a portrait by Pompeo Batoni of Francis Basset (1715–1769), an an English nobleman and politician, who embarked on a Grand Tour of Italy in 1777. The image shows Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica in the background.

Engländer in der Campagna

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This image shows Carl Spitzweg's painting Engländer in der Campagna (Englishmen in the Campagna

Illustration from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

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This is an illustration taken from the 1894 edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Title page of William Gilpin's Observations on the River Wye

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This is an image of the title page to William Gilpin's book Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales, published in 1782.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

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This is a 1750 painting of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews painted by Thomas Gainsborough, showing the recently married landed gentry couple standing before their newly acquired picturesque property.

An Example of the Picturesque by William Gilpin

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This image is a watercolour print taken from William Gilpin's 1782 book Observations on the River Wye.

Jean-Léon Gérôme's "The Snake Charmer"

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This is an image of the Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1879 painting "The Snake Charmer," an Orientalist painting.

Nicola Forcella's 'Dans le souk aux cuivres' (c. 1868)

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This is a work by the Italian Orientalist painter Nicola Forcella, entitled 'Dans le souk aux cuivres' (c. 1868)

Along the Ghats, Mathura (or Picture Of The Nile) by Edwin Lord Weeks, c. 1880

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This is a painting by Edwin Lord Weeks entitled 'Along the Ghats, Mathura (or Picture Of The Nile)' (c. 1880) depicting people bathing in the river and reclining on the ghats (steps) in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.