{"id":467439,"date":"2026-03-10T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467439\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:29:10","slug":"long-lost-paintings-from-rudyard-kiplings-jungle-book-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/467439\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-lost paintings from Rudyard Kipling&#8217;s Jungle Book to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The newly found images, by Edward Detmold [1883-1957] and Charles Maurice Detmold [1883-1908], were published when they were just 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They had gone unrecognised in London for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The owners, who have not been named, said: &#8220;These drawings were never treated as &#8216;important&#8217; works in our family &#8211; they were simply part of our home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Finding out that they restore a missing piece of the visual history of Kipling&#8217;s The Jungle Book, has been completely unexpected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first of the two watercolours, by Edward Detmold, depicts Mowgli and Bagheera. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second, The Cold Lairs, is by Maurice Detmold and shows monkeys in the ruined city of the Bandar-log. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newly found images, by Edward Detmold [1883-1957] and Charles Maurice Detmold [1883-1908], were published when they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-467439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}