Man with Embroidery Frame (India)

Man in Lucknow, standing next to an embroidery frame, c. 1970. Drawing by John Lockwood Kipling. Man in Lucknow, standing next to an embroidery frame, c. 1970. Drawing by John Lockwood Kipling. Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. 0929:26/(IS).

A drawing now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, shows a Muslim man in Lucknow, northern India, standing next to a rectangular embroidery frame, with designs for caps outlined on the cloth. The drawing was made around 1870 by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911), father of the novelist Rudyard Kipling.

V&A online catalogue (retrieved 16 May 2016)

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