Dorothy Carleton Smyth | A series of 24 coloured designs for Rudyard Kipling

Dorothy Carleton Smyth

Designs for Rudyard Kipling

24 original watercolour illustrations, each c. 242 x 166 mm, each captioned with name of text and quotation, each surrounded by an elaborate decorative border, some heightened with gilt, each window-mounted, housed in 2 modern navy blue morocco-backed boxes by Shepherds Bindery

A SERIES OF FINELY EXECUTED AND HIGHLY DISTINCTIVE ILLUSTRATIONS OF KIPLING'S WORKS BY DOROTHY CARLETON SMYTH, A LEADING LIGHT OF THE "GLASGOW GIRLS".

The illustrations comprise:

Housed in first box:

(1) The First Jungle Book: "I was among the ploughed lands. 'I am ready, see!' Mowgli held up the fire pot."

(2) The Naulakha: "The Maharajah Kunwar Heir Apparent to the throne of Gokral Seetarum..."

(3) Kim: "They followed the rutted and worn country road..."

(4) Songs from Books: "Lo, I have wrought in common clay..."

(5) Plain Tales from the Hills: "...and soldierly sat a bareheaded skeleton"

(6) Departmental Ditties: "Ulysses went a-waltzing..."

(7) Captains Courageous: "There's good and just reason for ivry rope aboard..."

(8) Puck of Pook's Hill: "What Una admired beyond all was his great bronze helmet..."

(9) The Light That Failed: "Dick rose and began to feel his way across the room..."

(10) Actions and Reactions: "'Wait to take him to his cot when he grows weary,' said his mother..."

(11) Soldiers Three: "Dusty, sweating, but still keeping their long swinging tramp..."

(12) Life's Handicap: "He was in the forest for many years..."

Housed in second box:

(13) Just So Stories: "Then he climbed to the top of his palm tree and waited for the rhinoceros to come out of the water."

(14) From Sea to Sea. Vol II.: "The only differences between country and country lie in the slang and uniform of the police."

(15) Debits and Credits. On the Gate: "...the scene was not unlike... outside the refreshment room by the arch at Victoria Station."

(16) Stalky & Co.: "They returned from the baths..."

(17) Many Inventions: "In the beginning of things she had worn the heavy, fluffy fringe..."

(18) Rewards and Fairies: "Puck... gave the children power to see."

(19) The Second Jungle Book: "Kotuko and the girl went North to Ellesmere land..."

(20) From Sea to Sea, Vol I.: "O-Toyo, ebon-haired and rosy cheeked..."

(21) The Day's Work: "It was too dark now to see beyond the first pier..."

(22) The Years Between. The Song of the Lathes: "The fans and the beltings they roar round me..."

(23) Seven Seas: "In port (we used no cargo steam)..."

(24) Wee Willie Winkie: "Wee Willie Winkie was not lovely, his face was permanently freckled..."