The Dulwich Picture Gallery has (until 2 Mar: admission charge) a nice
exhibition of the work of Arthur Rackham, including sketches, paintings and
books.
A Kipling item exhibited is an ink and watercolour painting, 30x24cm, of
the widow and her sons for 'Dymchurch Flit' , used as basis for one of the
4 colour plates for the Doubleday, Page & Co edition of "Puck of Pook's
Hill" in 1906 (Stewart 307 @ pp 250-1), loaned from the V&A Museum to which
it was bequeathed by a Mrs F. Draper in 1936..
The Museum does not have any other Rackham-Kipling paintings (I checked
their catalogue) ; I wonder if any one knows where the 3 other paintings
presumably prepared for the Doubleday edition are?
Bryan Diamond
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