Illustration, A Song of the English, Calcutta
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Calcutta -- Me the Sea-captain loved, the River built. Depicting an Indian woman representing the city of Calcutta, full of riches but also occasionally deadly, as suggested by the human skull (a comment on British interests in India)
Picture No
10952162
Media ID
48221769
Size
3178px x 6364px
(3.9MB)
Credit
© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Colour illustration by W Heath Robinson in A Song of the English by Rudyard Kipling, 1909
Date
first published 1893
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