Sixteen illustrations of subjects from Kipling's "Jungle book"
A 1903 London edition from Macmillan presenting sixteen illustrations by the Detmold brothers, Charles Maurice and Edward Julius, for Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, aimed at general readers and children. The pictures are rotated sideways on the page: a wolf-like animal in the foreground of a dark forest, a dense leafy thicket with a shaggy animal reclining among flowers, a dim scene of a large animal and a figure with a curved blade, and a pale landscape with elephants. A designer might take their dense foliage, muted earth tones and naturalistic animal studies as a model for rich, shadowed woodland scenes.
