Extras: Bateman's 6

"Who cares to tell truth to a letter-writer?" Kim answered, feeling Mahbub's palm on his heart.

John Lockwood Kipling was Rudyard's father and he was an art teacher and also an illustrator and museum curator. There is an upstairs room at Batemans that contains a series of framed 3D plaster reliefs he created for Rudyard portraying scenes from various books that he wrote. This particular one is called Kim and the Letter Writer and, of course, is based on his book "Kim."

The book is a colourful descriptive story of Kim, an Irish orphan in India who becomes the disciple of a Tibetan monk at the same time as learning the skills of espionage from the British Secret Service.

[Susan Wakely]

Interesting piece.

[Diana]

Lovely capture and a great and interesting narrative.

[Corinne C]

A wonderful drawing

[Casablanca]

@corinnec It's lovely, isn't it? It is actually a 3D plaster relief, so a sculpture and not a drawing. So clever.

[Babs]

I think it is beautiful.

[Rob Z]

Such a lovely image to be a plaster relief...

[Kathy]

Interesting bit of history.

[Kathy A]

Wow, such an amazing plaster relief

[Paula Fontanini]

What a beautiful piece of art and history!

[Andrew-Bede Allsop]

Kim is my favourite Kipling book; whenever I want a bit of comfort reading I turn to it which can be a few times every year! I never tire of Kipling's descriptive prose.