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THE WAY

Stipple engraving by James Denison-Pender on two sheets
of optical crystal, each engraved on both sides, mounted in
an aluminium frame on a stainless steel base.

Height 25cm, width 15cm.

The engraving is the result of a walking holiday taken by
the engraver and his wife in the Indian foothills of the
Himalayas. The subject is taken from Kim's encounter with
the Woman of Shamlegh at the end of Kipling's novel.

'I am the Woman of Shamlegh, and I hold from the Rajah.
I am no common bearer of babes.
Shamlegh is thine: hoof and horn and hide, milk and butter.
Take of leave.'

'How can a man follow the Way or the Great Game when
he is eternally pestered by women?'
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