Two Boys on Either Side of an Embroidery Frame (India)

Two boys on either side of an embroidery frame. Drawing made in Delhi, 1870, by John Lockwood Kipling. Two boys on either side of an embroidery frame. Drawing made in Delhi, 1870, by John Lockwood Kipling. Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. 0929:28/(IS).

A drawing (36.9 x 26.3 cm) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, shows two boys sitting on either side of an embroidery frame, used for decorating caps and slippers. The drawing was made in Delhi in November 1870 by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911), father of the novelist Rudyard Kipling.

V&A online catalogue (retrieved 16th May 2016)

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