Rudyard Kipling; King George V
16 of 40 portraits of Rudyard Kipling
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Rudyard Kipling; King George V
by Daily Sketch
bromide print on Daily Sketch mount, 11 May 1922
7 in. x 5 7/8 in. (202 mm x 149 mm)
Purchased, 1991
Photographs Collection
NPG x36220
Sittersback to top
- King George V (1865-1936), Reigned 1910-36. Sitter in 488 portraits.
- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Writer and poet. Sitter associated with 40 portraits.
This portraitback to top
Photographed with King George V at the Military cemetery in Vlamertinghe, Belgium. Kipling was a commissioner of the Imperial War Graves Commission.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Faces of the Century, 1999 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 22 October 1999 to 30 January 2000), p. 145
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Reviewers Revealed: Celebrating the TLS Centenary (7 November 2001 - 3 March 2002)
Events of 1922back to top
Current affairs
The British Broadcasting Company (later British Broadcasting Corporation) is established to experiment with radio broadcasting. It is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, providing radio, television and Internet services to the public in Britain and across the world.Art and science
1922 is a key year for modernist literature with the publication of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land. Both broke new ground with Ulysses (loosely based on Homer's Odyssey) introducing the 'stream of consciousness' narrative technique, and The Waste Land experimenting with multiple voices and a patchwork of literary, historic, mythological and personal allusions.International
The Soviet Union is formed under Joseph Stalin who takes power after Lenin suffers a debilitating stroke.In an attempt to avoid civil war, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy invites Benito Mussolini to form a new government following the Fascist Party's March on Rome.
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