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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