Kipling Rudyard

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Portrait photograph of Rudyard Kipling as a young man. With clipped signature

ref. 06199n.p.: 1900. Rudyard Kipling" An Authentic Signature of the Nobel Prize-Winning Author Attractively Framed with a Portrait of Kipling as a Young Man KIPLING Rudyard 1865-1936. Autograph signature "Rudyard Kipling" on a clipped slip attractively mounted together with a photographic portrait of Kipling as a young man and an engraved identification plaque. The autograph boldly signed in black ink "Rudyard Kipling" is mounted within a cream and black geometric mat. Beneath is a brass plaque engraved "RUDYARD KIPLING / 1865-1936 / English Writer." Alongside is a photographic portrait of Kipling wearing spectacles and a broad-brimmed hat. Photographic portrait approximately 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches 241 x 170 mm. The whole professionally matted framed and glazed in an attractive black and gilt frame. Overall frame size approximately 16 1/2 x 21 inches 419 x 535 mm. An attractive framed presentation incorporating an authentic autograph of Rudyard Kipling one of the most celebrated English writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent much of his early life in British India an experience which profoundly influenced his literary career. His extraordinary range encompassed poetry short stories novels and children's literature. His best-known works include The Jungle Book 1894 The Second Jungle Book 1895 Kim 1901 and Just So Stories for Little Children 1902 together with such celebrated poems as "Mandalay" "Gunga Din" "Recessional" and "If - ." In 1907 Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature becoming both the first English-language recipient and at the age of forty-one the youngest recipient to that date. The Nobel committee praised his powers of observation originality of imagination virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration. The autograph itself is particularly appealing: it is a clean legible example of Kipling's familiar flowing signature with the distinctive formation of the capital R and K and it presents extremely well within the custom display. n.p.: , 1900 unknown