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

n.p.: , 1900. A Framed Portrait of Rudyard Kipling as a Young Man

KIPLING, Rudyard, English poet and novelist, Nobel laureate (1865-1936).

Portrait photograph of Rudyard Kipling as a young man. With clipped signature. n.p., ca. 1900.

Photograph (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches; 241 x 170 mm.). Mounted, framed and glazed with clipped signature of Kipling and an engraved brass plaque "Rudyard Kipling/1865-1936/English Writer".

Frame size (16 1/2 x 21 inches; 419 x 535 mm.).

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in British India, his experiences there (truncated) greatly influenced his work. By middle age, he had already won the Nobel Prize in Literature and was renowned across the English-speaking world. Kipling's notable works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). Among his many short stories, "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) remains a classic. His poetry includes "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), "If—" (1910), and "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919).

Recognized as a pioneer of the short story, Kipling's children's books are considered timeless classics, with one critic praising his "versatile and luminous narrative gift. (Inventory #: 06199)