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Tagore with Michael Ney, 1929-04

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011T/31

Scope and Contents

194 x 248 mm. Signed half length profile portrait in soft focus of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the Bengali poet, writer and artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Seated on Tagore's lap is Michael Ney (c. 1925-1954), the son of Major Frederick Ney, founder of the Commonwealth Youth Movement. Michael Ney was killed in Kenya while acting as a police officer during the Mau Mau emergency. This photograph was taken during the Conference on Education held at Victoria and Vancouver in April 1929. This photograph was used in the Commonwealth in Focus Exhibition, 1982.

Dates

  • Creation: 1929-04

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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Language of Materials

English

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Good condition.

Existence and Location of Copies

CN 1416.

Bibliography

A reproduction of this portrait is used as a frontispiece to: Lang, C.C. ed. (1930), Education and Leisure, London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd.

General

SG.

Finding aid date

2003-10-03 14:28:22+00:00

Includes index.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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