Illustration, A Song of the English, Calcutta

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Illustration, A Song of the English, Calcutta

Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). Calcutta -- Me the Sea-captain loved, the River built. Depicting an Indian woman representing the city of Calcutta, full of riches but also occasionally deadly, as suggested by the human skull (a comment on British interests in India). Date: first published 1893

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1893 Allegorical Colonialism Heath Imperialism Interests Jingoism Jingoistic Kipling Orientalism Patriotic Patriotism Poem Poems Poetry Publication Rich Riches Robinson Rudyard Siecle Song Symbolic Verse

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