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Rikki-tikki, Kipling's Jungle Book
Detmold, (Charles) Maurice and Edward Julius, 1903, Publisher's print
Rikki-tikki, Kipling's Jungle Book
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39331
Title
Rikki-tikki, Kipling's Jungle Book
Description
"Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tonque to tail. When he had lifted one-third of himself clear of the ground, he stayed balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion-tuft balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the wicked snake's eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake may be thinking of."
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
Artist / maker
Detmold, (Charles) Maurice and Edward Julius
Date
1903
Size
26.0 x 35.0 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
This illustration is from a bound volume of prints by the brothers, (Charles) Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius Detmold inspired by Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
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Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book
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