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  • Collection: Kipling Scrapbooks - Letters of Marque

Clipping from "Letters of Marque" XIII

This image shows a clipping from Rudyard Kipling's thirteenth installment in the "Letters of Marque" series published in the Pioneer Mail.

Portrait Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Bassett

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.

Cover of Garth Scrapbook

This item shows the cover of the Garth Scrapbook containing Rudyard Kipling's "Letters of Marque" from the Pioneer Mail

Title Page of the Garth Scrapbook

This image shows the title of the Garth Scrapbook containing Rudyard Kipling's "Letters of Marque" from the Pioneer Mail.

Taj Mahal - I

Illustrations of locations from Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Marque.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews

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.

Abraham Ortelius's map Thomas More's Utopia

This image shows Abraham Ortelius's rendering of the imagined nation in Thomas More's Utopia.

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

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.

An Example of the Picturesque by William Gilpin

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

Ballard 1 (The Garth Scrapbook)

Scrapbook contains Rudyard Kipling’s early works in the Pioneer Mail. Compiled by Sir William Garth (1854-1923), a British lawyer and advocate serving in Kolkata, India from 1885-1913, then acquired by Kipling collector Ellis Ames Ballard…