John Kipling designed the uniforms and decorations for the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi during 1877, organised by the Viceroy of India, Lord Lytton, at which Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.ĭuring his tenure as the Principal of the Mayo School of Art, Lahore, he patronised indigenous artisans and by training and apprenticeship transformed them into craftsmen and designers. The west entrance displays trader and sack-scales with porter, planter and water carrier around a well-head, while the east features several bullock carts. The friezes of the Crawford Market are done in a Romano-Gothic style. He also worked on the decorations for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and friezes on the Crawford Market in Bombay. Kipling illustrated many of Rudyard Kipling's books, and other works, including Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel. ĭuring 1875, Kipling was appointed the Principal of Mayo School of Arts, Lahore, British India (present day National College of Arts, Pakistan) and also became curator of the old original Lahore Museum which figured as the Wonder House or Ajaib Ghar in Kim, not to be confused with the present one.
Several of these sketches are presently at the Victoria and Albert Museum whilst others were printed in a number of books. During 1870–1872 Kipling was commissioned by the government to tour the Punjab, North-West Frontier and Kashmir and make a series of sketches of Indian craftsmen as well as various sights and antiquities in these regions.
His life-long friend John Griffiths, whom he had met whilst working together at the South Kensington Museum and worked with him at the Bombay School of Art, became Rudyard's godfather. Their son was born soon after, in December 1865, and was christened Rudyard after Rudyard, Staffordshire, the place where his parents had first met their daughter Alice also known as Beatrice Kipling was born in 1868. Kipling married during 1865 and relocated with his wife to India, where he had been appointed as a professor of architectural sculpture in the Jeejeebhoy School of Art in Bombay (now Mumbai), and later became its principal. John Lockwood Kipling and Alice Kipling in India during 1870Īlice was the daughter of a Methodist minister, the Reverend George Browne Macdonald.
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