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Of the Uncivilized Night and the Departure to Things Civilized. Showing how a Friend may keep an Appointment too well.

John Lockwood Kipling's illustration for Rudyard Kipling's 1895 edition of 'The Two Jungle Books,' for the chapter "Letting in the Jungle"

A sketch of the Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur.

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.

This is the cover for John Murray's 1871 travel guide 'Handbook for Travellers in Turkey in Asia including Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Brousa and Plain of Troy.'

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

This item is an atlas map of Rajputana and Ajmere-Mewara, India, from 1894.

Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.

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.

The item is a portrait of Rudyard Kipling by Bourne & Shepherd, circa 1892